Physical culture, power, and the body
By: edited by Jennifer Hargreaves and Patricia Vertinsky
Contributors: Hargreaves, Jennifer, 1937-; Vertinsky, Patricia Anne, 1942-
Series: Routledge critical studies in sport
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780415363518; 9780415363525; 9780203014653
Subjects: Physical education and training -- Social aspects; Sports -- Social aspects; Body, Human -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Jennifer Hargreaves and Patricia Vertinsky; title: Movement practices and fascist infections : from dance under the swastika to movement education in the British primary school / Patricia Vertinsky; title: Political somatics : fascism, physical culture, and the sporting body / Ian McDonald; title: Sport, exercise, and the female Muslim body : negotiating Islam, politics, and male power / Jennifer Hargreaves; title: Producing girls : empire, sport, and the neoliberal body / Leslie Heywood; title: Entertaining femininities : the embodied exhibitions of striptease and sport, 1950-1975 / Becki L. Ross; title: The social logic of sparring : on the body as practical strategist / Loïc Wacquant; title: Disabled bodies and narrative time : men, sport, and spinal cord injury / Andrew C. Sparkes and Brett Smith; title: "It's not about health, it's about performance" : sport medicine, health, and the culture of risk in Canadian sport / Nancy Theberge; title: Welcome to the 'sportocracy' : 'race' and sport after innocence; title: Gamal Abdel-Shehid; title: Race and athletics in the twenty-first century / John Hoberman; title: Technologized bodies : virtual women and transformations in understandings of the body as natural / Kate O'Riordan