Physical Culture, Power, and the Body (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Vertinsky, Patricia; Hargreaves, Jennifer

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores meanings and representations of body in relation to our physical cultures - our traditions of cultural practices such as sport and dance within which the moving physical body is central.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134227044
• Artikelnr.: 38261696

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Hargreaves is Visiting Professor of Sport and Gender Politics at Brighton University, UK. Patricia Vertinsky is Professor of Human Kinetics and Distinguished University Scholar at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Movement Practices and Fascist Infections: From Dance
Under the Swastika to Movement Education in the British Primary School 3.
Political Somatics: Fascism, Physical Culture and the Sporting Body 4.
Sport, Exercise and the Female Muslim Body: Negotiating Islam, Politics,
and Male Power 5. Producing Girls: Empire, Sport, and the Neoliberal Body
6. Entertaining Femininities: The Embodied Exhibitions of Striptease and
Sport, 1950-1975 7. The Social Logic of Sparring 8. Disabled Bodies and
Narrative Time: Men, Sport, and Spinal Cord Injury 9. 'It's Not About
Health, It's About Performance': Sport Medicine, Health and the Culture of
Risk in Canadian Sport 10. Welcome to the Sportocracy: 'Race' and Sport
After Innocence 11. Race and Athletics in the 21st Century 12.
Technologized Bodies: Virtual Women and Transformations in Understandings
of the Body as Natural