Boys, Bodies, and Physical Education

Problematizing Identity, Schooling, and Power Relations through a Pleasure Lens

Göran Gerdin (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-64997-2 (ISBN)

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Using visual ethnography, this book explores the many forms of pleasures that boys derive in and through the spaces and their bodies in physical education. Employing the works of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, Gerdin examines how pleasure is connected to identity, schooling, and power relations, and demonstrates how discourses of sport, fitness, health and masculinity work together to produce a variety of pleasurable experiences. At the same time, the book provides a critique of such pleasurable experiences within physical education by illustrating how these pleasures can still, for some boys, quickly turn into displeasures and can be associated with exclusion, humiliation, bullying and homophobia.

Boys, Bodies, and Physical Education argues that pleasure can both be seen as an educational and productive practice in physical education but also a constraint that both engenders and privileges some boys over others as well as (re)producing narrow and limited conceptions of masculinity and pleasures for all boys. This book works to problematize these pleasures and their articulations with gender, bodies, and spaces.

Göran Gerdin is Senior Lecturer of Physical Education and Sport at Linnaeus University, Sweden.

Part I: Background 1. Boys will be Boys? 2. Gender, Bodies, Spaces and (dis)Pleasures 3. Visual Ethnography of Boys’ PE Part 2: A Visual Ethnography of Kea College 4. Sporting and Masculinising Spaces: The Performative and Pleasurable Spaces of Boys’ PE 5. The Production of Masculine (dis)Pleasures in Boys’ PE 6. ‘Sporty’, ‘Fit’ and ‘Healthy’: The Materialisation of Pleasurable Bodies in Boys’ PE 7. The (dis)Pleasures of Learning in, through and about Movement

Erscheinungsdatum	29.06.2017
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Critical Studies in Gender and Sexuality in Education
Zusatzinfo	30 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-138-64997-X / 113864997X
ISBN-13	978-1-138-64997-2 / 9781138649972
Zustand	Neuware