Embodied Sporting Practices [electronic resource] : Regulating and Regulatory Bodies /
Woodward, K.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; 1 Introduction: Regulating Bodies, Regulatory Bodies; 2 Body Matters; 3 Sport: Bodies at Play?; 4 Equalities and Inequalities: Diversity and Neo-liberal Dilemmas; 5 Embodied Selves: Situated Bodies, Bodies as Situations; 6 Beyond Text: Spectacles, Sensations and Affects; 7 Beyond Bodies; 8 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-203) and index.
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.
Sports—Sociological aspects.
Human body—Social aspects.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Sports.
Service industries.
Popular works.
Sociology of Sport and Leisure.
Sociology of the Body.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Popular Science in Sports.
Services.
Popular Science, general.