Embodied Sporting Practices - Regulating and Regulatory Bodies

Zusatztext 'Woodward's work here offers a new understanding of embodied experiences in sport! and it opens up space for future feminist and other social scientific investigations of embodied human experience.' - Katie Snyder Marr! Michigan Technological University! USA Informationen zum Autor Kath Woodward is Professor of Sociology and Head of Department in the Sociology Department at the Open University, UK. Her interests bring together feminist theory, gender studies and sport. She is author of Boxing, Masculinity and Identity, Social Sciences: The Big Issues, Why Feminism Matters, Embodied Sporting Practices, and Sex, Power and the Games. Klappentext This is a book about bodies; material bodies and their practices and the regulatory bodies that shape embodied selves and their experiences. Sport is the focus for an examination of the links and intersections between lived bodies and the body politic and its disciplinary apparatuses. Zusammenfassung This is a book about bodies; material bodies and their practices and the regulatory bodies that shape embodied selves and their experiences. Sport is the focus for an examination of the links and intersections between lived bodies and the body politic and its disciplinary apparatuses. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Regulating Bodies; Regulatory Bodies Body Matters Sport Bodies at Play Equalities and Inequalities Embodied Selves Situated Bodies, Bodies as Situations Beyond Text: Spectacles, Sensations and Affects Beyond Bodies Conclusion Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: K Woodward, K. Woodward, Kath Woodward, Woodward Kath
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2009
• EAN: 9780230218055
• ISBN: 978-0-230-21805-5
• No. of pages: 213
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > Mankind; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; B, sports, Sociology, Cultural Studies, popular science, Anthropology, Services, Sport Science, Sport: general, Regional and Cultural Studies, Regional Cultural Studies, Regional Studies, Technology and Engineering, Sport Sociology, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Sports—Sociological aspects, Culture—Study and teaching, Popular works, Popular Science, general, Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Sociology of the Body, Human body—Social aspects, Popular Science in Sports, Service industries, Hospitality & service industries, Affect;Nation;Sport