Physical culture, power, and the body / edited by Jennifer Hargreaves and Patricia Vertinsky.
| Other author | Hargreaves, Jennifer, 1937- |
| Other author | Vertinsky, Patricia Anne, 1942- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Routledge, 2007. |
| Description | xiv, 263 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge critical studies in sport Routledge critical studies in sport. ^A589222 |
| Contents | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2006015082 |
| ISBN | 0415363519 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 0415363527 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 0203014650 (ebk.) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | GV342.27 .P489 2007 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |