Physical Culture, Power, and the Body

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ISBN: 9780415363525 | 0415363527
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Copyright: 11/30/2006

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During the past decade, there has been ah outpouring of books on 'the body' in society, but none has focused as specifically as this one on physical culture - that is, cultural practices such as sport and dance within which the moving physical body is central.

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List of illustrations	p. vii
Notes on contributors	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Series editors' preface	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Movement practices and fascist infections: from dance under the swastika to movement education in the British primary school	p. 25
Political somatics: fascism, physical culture, and the sporting body	p. 52
Sport, exercise, and the female Muslim body: negotiating Islam, politics, and male power	p. 74
Producing girls: Empire, sport, and the neoliberal body	p. 101
Entertaining femininities: the embodied exhibitions of striptease and sport, 1950-1975	p. 121
The social logic of sparring: on the body as practical strategist	p. 142
Disabled bodies and narrative time: men, sport, and spinal cord injury	p. 158
'It's not about health, it's about performance': sport medicine, health, and the culture of risk in Canadian sport	p. 176
Welcome to the 'sportocracy': 'race' and sport after innocence	p. 195
Race and athletics in the twenty-first century	p. 208
Technologized bodies: virtual women and transformations in understandings of the body as natural	p. 232
Index	p. 253
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