Physical culture, power, and the body / edited by Jennifer Hargreaves and Patricia Vertinsky.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.