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Informationen zum Autor J.A. Mangan is a distinguished scholar in the fields of sports history whose work has inspired a generation of historians and social scientists. He has written extensively on sport in America! including Shaping the Superman: Fascist Body as Political Icon - Aryan Fascism; and The Cultural Bond: Sport! Empire! Society. Patricia Vertinsky is Professor of Human Kinetics and Distinguished University Scholar at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. She is author of The Eternally Wounded Woman: Doctors! Women and Exercise in the Late Nineteenth Century; and is co-author of Physical Activity! Aging and Stereotypes; Sites of Sport: Space! Place and Experience! and Disciplining Bodies in the Gymnasium: Memory! Monument and Modernism. Klappentext Published as an issue of the "International Journal of the History of Sport"! this book presents a selection of the author's writings. It is of interest to scholars and students in Sports Studies! Physical Education! Health Studies! Sociology and Social Psychology. Zusammenfassung This volume comprises some of the finest contributions by the distinguished Berkeley scholar, Professor Roberta J. Park, to Sports Studies, Sports Sciences and Physical Education. It is an invaluable source of her seminal writings available nowhere else. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue: Roberta J. Park, Polymathic and Polymorphic Pioneer: A Personal Appreciation J.A. Mangan ‘Embodied Selves’: The Rise and Development of Concern for Physical Education, Active Games and Recreation for American Women, 1776–1865 Biological Thought, Athletics and the Formation of a ‘Man of Character’: 1830–1900 Sport, Gender and Society in a Transatlantic Victorian Perspective Muscles, Symmetry and Action: ‘Do You Measure Up?’ Defining Masculinity in Britain and America from the 1860s to the Early 1900s Physiologists, Physicians, and Physical Educators: Nineteenth Century Biology and Exercise, Hygienic and Educative Science, Service, and the Professionalization of Physical Education: 1885–1905 ‘Cells or Soaring?’: Historical Reflections on ‘Visions’ of Body, Athletics, and Modern Olympism Roberta J. Park and the ‘Impossible Dream’: Keeping it Together for Physical Education and the Academy Patricia Vertinsky List of Roberta J. Park’s Publications ...
