ISBN:
0415363519
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0415363527
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0203014650
,
9780415363518
,
9780415363525
,
9780203014653
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (263 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
Parallel Title:
Print version Physical Culture, Power, and the Body
DDC:
306.483
Keywords:
Human body Social aspects
;
Power (Social sciences)
;
Sports Sociological aspects
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Half-Title; Series Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Series editors' preface; 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
Description / Table of Contents:
7 The social logic of sparring: On the body as practical strategist8 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 twenty-first century; 12 Technologized bodies: Virtual women and transformations in understandings of the body as natural; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
