Tara Magdalinski

Sport, Technology and the Body

The Nature of Performance

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Sport, Technology and the Body examines the nature of performance, cultural resistance to the enhancement of athletes, and the ways in which technology confounds popular conceptions of the sporting body and its achievements as "natural". Offering a powerful challenge to conventional views of athletic performance it is essential reading for all serious students of the sociology, culture or ethics of sport.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780415378765
• ISBN-10: 0415378761
• Artikelnr.: 21748379

Autorenporträt

Tara Magdalinski is the Academic Director of the Centre for Sports Studies at University College Dublin. Her research focuses on the construction of social identities and the production of historical narratives through sport. She co-edited With God on Their Side: Sport in the Service of Religion (Routledge, 2002).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction: Sport, the Body and Performance Technology Chapter
2: The Nature of Sport Chapter 3: The Nature of the Body Chapter 4: The
Nature of Performance Chapter 5: The Nature of Health Chapter 6: 'Those
Girls with Sideburns': Enhancing the Female Body Chapter 7: Enhancing the
Body from Without: Artificial Skins and Other Prosthetics Chapter 8: Drugs,
Sport and Australian Identity Chapter 9: The Performance of Nature at the
2000 Sydney Olympic Games Chapter 10: Conclusion Bibliography