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 InfoLondon ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
Descriptionxiv, 263 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

SeriesRoutledge 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2006015082
ISBN0415363519 (hbk.)
ISBN0415363527 (pbk.)
ISBN0203014650 (ebk.)

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Joyner General Stacks GV342.27 .P489 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold