Physical Description
xiv, 263 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
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.
Other Authors/Editors
Hargreaves, Jennifer,
Vertinsky, Patricia Anne,
ISBN
0415363519
9780415363518 (hbk.)
0415363527 (pbk.)
9780415363525 (pbk.)
0203014650 (ebk.)
9780203014653 (ebk.)
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
