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Gender, sport, science : selected writings of Roberta J. Park / edited by J.A. Mangan and Patricia Vertinsky.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Sport in the global societyPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2009Description: xiv, 273 pages ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415465133
  • 9780415465137
Other title:
  • Selected writings of Roberta J. Park
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.483 22
LOC classification:
  • GV709 .P225 2009
Contents:
1. Prologue: Roberta J. Park, Polymathic and Polymorphic Pioneer: A Personal Appreciation / J.A. Mangan -- 2. 'Embodied Selves': The Rise and Development of Concern for Physical Education, Active Games and Recreation for American Women, 1776 - -- 3. Biological Thought, Athletics and the Formation of a 'Man of Character': 1830 - -- 4. Sport, Gender and Society in a Transatlantic Victorian Perspective -- 5. Muscles, Symmetry and Action: 'Do You Measure Up?' Defining Masculinity in Britain and America from the 1860s to the Early 1900s -- 6. Physiologists, Physicians, and Physical Educators: Nineteenth Century Biology and Exercise, Hygienic and Educative -- 7. Science, Service, and the Professionalization of Physical Education: 1885 - -- 8. 'Cells or Soaring?': Historical Reflections on 'Visions' of Body, Athletics, and Modern Olympism -- 9. Roberta J. Park and the 'Impossible Dream': Keeping it Together for Physical Education and the Academy / Patricia Vertinsky.
Summary: "Roberta J. Park has been throughout her distinguished career a scholar with a mission - to win academic recognition of the significance of the body in culture and cultures. Her scholarship has earned her global esteem in the disciplines of Physical Education and Sports Studies for its penetrating insights. This selection of her writings is a well-deserved tribute to her interpretive originality, her intellectual acuity and her ability to inspire colleagues and students. To explore unexplored patterns has been her extraordinary strength. The result has been continual originality of insight. These writings are thus a unique compilation of scholastic creativity of major interest to scholars and students in Sports Studies, Physical Education, Health Studies, Sociology and Social Psychology ."--Publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-253) and index.

1. Prologue: Roberta J. Park, Polymathic and Polymorphic Pioneer: A Personal Appreciation / J.A. Mangan -- 2. 'Embodied Selves': The Rise and Development of Concern for Physical Education, Active Games and Recreation for American Women, 1776 - -- 3. Biological Thought, Athletics and the Formation of a 'Man of Character': 1830 - -- 4. Sport, Gender and Society in a Transatlantic Victorian Perspective -- 5. Muscles, Symmetry and Action: 'Do You Measure Up?' Defining Masculinity in Britain and America from the 1860s to the Early 1900s -- 6. Physiologists, Physicians, and Physical Educators: Nineteenth Century Biology and Exercise, Hygienic and Educative -- 7. Science, Service, and the Professionalization of Physical Education: 1885 - -- 8. 'Cells or Soaring?': Historical Reflections on 'Visions' of Body, Athletics, and Modern Olympism -- 9. Roberta J. Park and the 'Impossible Dream': Keeping it Together for Physical Education and the Academy / Patricia Vertinsky.

"Roberta J. Park has been throughout her distinguished career a scholar with a mission - to win academic recognition of the significance of the body in culture and cultures. Her scholarship has earned her global esteem in the disciplines of Physical Education and Sports Studies for its penetrating insights. This selection of her writings is a well-deserved tribute to her interpretive originality, her intellectual acuity and her ability to inspire colleagues and students. To explore unexplored patterns has been her extraordinary strength. The result has been continual originality of insight. These writings are thus a unique compilation of scholastic creativity of major interest to scholars and students in Sports Studies, Physical Education, Health Studies, Sociology and Social Psychology ."--Publisher's website.

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