Physical Culture, Power, and the Body (Routledge Critical Studies in Sport)

During the past decade, there has been an outpouring of books on 'the body' in society, but none has focused as specifically on physical culture - that is, cultural practices such as sport and dance within which the moving physical body is central. Questions are raised about the character of the body, specifically the relation between the ‘natural’ body, the ‘constructed’ body and the ‘alien’ or ‘virtual’ body throughout the book. The themes of the book are wide in scope, including: physical culture and the fascist body sport and the racialised body sport medicine, health and the culture of risk the female Muslim sporting body, power, and politics experiencing the disabled sporting body embodied exhibitions of striptease and sport the social logic of sparring sport, girls and the neoliberal body. Physical Culture, Power, and the Body aims to break down disciplinary boundaries in its theoretical approaches and its readership. The author’s muli-disciplinary backgrounds, demonstrate the widespread topicality of physical culture and the body. Book Cover......Page 1 Half-Title......Page 2 Series Title......Page 3 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Illustrations......Page 8 Contributors......Page 9 Acknowledgements......Page 12 Series editors’ preface......Page 14 1 Introduction......Page 16 2 Movement practices and fascist infections: From dance under the swastika to movement education in the British primary school......Page 40 3 Political somatics: Fascism, physical culture, and the sporting body......Page 67 4 Sport, exercise, and the female Muslim body: Negotiating Islam, politics, and male power......Page 89 5 Producing girls: Empire, sport, and the neoliberal body......Page 116 6 Entertaining femininities: The embodied exhibitions of striptease and sport, 1950–1975......Page 136 7 The social logic of sparring: On the body as practical strategist......Page 157 8 Disabled bodies and narrative time: Men, sport, and spinal cord injury......Page 173 9 ‘It’s not about health, it’s about performance’: Sport medicine, health, and the culture of risk in Canadian sport......Page 191 10 Welcome to the ‘sportocracy’: ‘Race’ and sport after innocence......Page 210 11 Race and athletics in the twenty-first century......Page 223 12 Technologized bodies: Virtual women and transformations in understandings of the body as natural......Page 247 Index......Page 268

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

Questions are raised about the character of the body, specifically the relation between the ‘natural’ body, the ‘constructed’ body and the ‘alien’ or ‘virtual’ body throughout the book. The themes of the book are wide in scope, including:

• physical culture and the fascist body


• sport and the racialised body


• sport medicine, health and the culture of risk


• the female Muslim sporting body, power, and politics


• experiencing the disabled sporting body


• embodied exhibitions of striptease and sport


• the social logic of sparring


• sport, girls and the neoliberal body.

Physical Culture, Power, and the Body aims to break down disciplinary boundaries in its theoretical approaches and its readership. The author’s muli-disciplinary backgrounds, demonstrate the widespread topicality of physical culture and the body.

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 The physical body as perceived and experienced is a complex social creation. This book explores meanings and representations of body in relation to our physical cultures - our traditions of movement, sport and dance This book explores meanings and representations of body in relation to our physical cultures - our traditions of cultural practices such as sport and dance within which the moving physical body is central