Physical culture, power, and the body
The physical body as perceived and experienced is a complex social creation. This book explores meanings and representations of body in relation to our physical cultures - our traditions of movement, sport and dance
xiv, 263 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780415363518, 9780415363525, 9780203014653, 0415363519, 0415363527, 0203014650
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Introduction / Jennifer Hargreaves and Patricia Vertinsky
Movement practices and fascist infections : from dance under the swastika to movement education in the British primary school / Patricia Vertinsky
Political somatics : fascism, physical culture, and the sporting body / Ian McDonald
Sport, exercise, and the female Muslim body : negotiating Islam, politics, and male power / Jennifer Hargreaves
Producing girls : empire, sport, and the neoliberal body / Leslie Heywood
Entertaining femininities : the embodied exhibitions of striptease and sport, 1950-1975 / Becki L. Ross
The social logic of sparring : on the body as practical strategist / Loïc Wacquant
Disabled bodies and narrative time : men, sport, and spinal cord injury / Andrew C. Sparkes and Brett Smith
"It's not about health, it's about performance" : sport medicine, health, and the culture of risk in Canadian sport / Nancy Theberge
Welcome to the 'sportocracy' : 'race' and sport after innocence
Gamal Abdel-Shehid
Race and athletics in the twenty-first century / John Hoberman
Technologized bodies : virtual women and transformations in understandings of the body as natural / Kate O'Riordan
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