Physical Culture, Power, and the BodyPatricia Vertinsky, Jennifer Hargreaves During the past decade, there has been an outpouring of books on 'the body' in society, but none has focused as specifically on physical culture - that is, cultural practices such as sport and dance within which the moving physical body is central. Questions are raised about the character of the body, specifically the relation between the ‘natural’ body, the ‘constructed’ body and the ‘alien’ or ‘virtual’ body. The themes of the book are wide in scope, including:
Physical Culture, Power, and the Body aims to break down disciplinary boundaries in its theoretical approaches and its readership. The author’s muli-disciplinary backgrounds, demonstrate the widespread topicality of physical culture and the body. |
Contents
Movement practices and fascist infections From dance under the swastika | |
Political somatics Fascism physical culture and the sporting body | |
Sport exercise and the female Muslim body Negotiating Islam politics | |
Producing girls Empire sport and the neoliberal body | |
Entertaining femininities The embodied exhibitions of striptease and sport | |
The social logic of sparring On the body as practical strategist | |
Disabled bodies and narrative time Men sport and spinal cord injury | |
Its not about health its about performance Sport medicine health and | |
Welcome to the sportocracy Race and sport after innocence | |
Race and athletics in the twentyfirst century | |
Technologized bodies Virtual women and transformations in understandings | |
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Physical Culture, Power, and the Body Jennifer Hargreaves,Patricia Anne Vertinsky No preview available - 2007 |
Physical Culture, Power, and the Body Jennifer Hargreaves,Patricia Anne Vertinsky No preview available - 2007 |
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