Embodied Sporting Practices

Regulating and Regulatory Bodies

K. Woodward (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

206 Seiten

2009
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-230-21805-5 (ISBN)

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This is a book about bodies; material bodies and their practices and the regulatory bodies that shape embodied selves and their experiences. Sport is the focus for an examination of the links and intersections between lived bodies and the body politic and its disciplinary apparatuses.

Kath Woodward is Professor of Sociology and Head of Department in the Sociology Department at the Open University, UK. Her interests bring together feminist theory, gender studies and sport. She is author of Boxing, Masculinity and Identity, Social Sciences: The Big Issues, Why Feminism Matters, Embodied Sporting Practices, and Sex, Power and the Games.

Introduction: Regulating Bodies; Regulatory Bodies Body Matters Sport Bodies at Play Equalities and Inequalities Embodied Selves Situated Bodies, Bodies as Situations Beyond Text: Spectacles, Sensations and Affects Beyond Bodies Conclusion Bibliography

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.7.2009
Zusatzinfo	1 Illustrations, black and white; VII, 206 p. 1 illus.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	400 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
	Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher ► Körper / Sexualität
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	0-230-21805-9 / 0230218059
ISBN-13	978-0-230-21805-5 / 9780230218055
Zustand	Neuware