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.
Additional Form
Electronic version(s) available internally at USHMM.
