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Physical culture, power, and the body / edited by Jennifer Hargreaves and Patricia Vertinsky.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge critical studies in sportPublisher: Abingdon, Oxon, England ; New York : Routledge, 2006Description: x, 263 pISBN:
  • 9780415363518
  • 9780415363525 (pbk.)
  • 0415363519
  • 0415363527 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.483 22
LOC classification:
  • GV342.27 .H37 2006
Contents:
1. Introduction / Jennifer Hargreaves and Patricia Vertinsky -- 2. Movement practices and fascist infections : from dance under the swastika to movement education in the British primary school / Patricia Vertinsky -- 3. Political somatics : fascism, physical culture, and the sporting body / Ian McDonald -- 4. Sport, exercise, and the female Muslim body : negotiating Islam, politics, and male power / Jennifer Hargreaves -- 5. Producing girls : empire, spot, and the neoliberal body / Leslie Heywood -- 6. Entertaining femininities : the embodied exhibitions of striptease and sport, 1950-1975 / Becki L. Ross -- 7. The social logic of sparring : on the body as practical strategist / Loic Wacquant -- 8. Disabled bodies and narrative time : men, sport, and spinal cord injury / Andrew C. Sparkes and Brett Smith -- 9. 'It's not about health, it's about performance' : sport medicine, health, and the culture of risk in Canadian sport / Nancy Theberge -- 10. Welcome to the 'sportocracy' : 'race' and sport after innocence / Gamal Abdel-Shehid -- 11. Race and athletics in the twenty-first century / John Hoberman -- 12. Technologized bodies : virtual women and transformations in understandings of the body as natural / Kate O'Riordan.
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Book North Campus North Campus Main Collection 306.483 PHY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A373840B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction / Jennifer Hargreaves and Patricia Vertinsky -- 2. Movement practices and fascist infections : from dance under the swastika to movement education in the British primary school / Patricia Vertinsky -- 3. Political somatics : fascism, physical culture, and the sporting body / Ian McDonald -- 4. Sport, exercise, and the female Muslim body : negotiating Islam, politics, and male power / Jennifer Hargreaves -- 5. Producing girls : empire, spot, and the neoliberal body / Leslie Heywood -- 6. Entertaining femininities : the embodied exhibitions of striptease and sport, 1950-1975 / Becki L. Ross -- 7. The social logic of sparring : on the body as practical strategist / Loic Wacquant -- 8. Disabled bodies and narrative time : men, sport, and spinal cord injury / Andrew C. Sparkes and Brett Smith -- 9. 'It's not about health, it's about performance' : sport medicine, health, and the culture of risk in Canadian sport / Nancy Theberge -- 10. Welcome to the 'sportocracy' : 'race' and sport after innocence / Gamal Abdel-Shehid -- 11. Race and athletics in the twenty-first century / John Hoberman -- 12. Technologized bodies : virtual women and transformations in understandings of the body as natural / Kate O'Riordan.

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