Gender, Sport, Science

J.A. Mangan is a distinguished scholar in the fields of sports history whose work has inspired a generation of historians and social scientists. He has written extensively on sport in America, including Shaping the Superman: Fascist Body as Political Icon - Aryan Fascism; and The Cultural Bond: Sport, Empire, Society. Patricia Vertinsky is Professor of Human Kinetics and Distinguished University Scholar at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. She is author of The Eternally Wounded Woman: Doctors, Women and Exercise in the Late Nineteenth Century; and is co-author of Physical Activity, Aging and Stereotypes; Sites of Sport: Space, Place and Experience, and Disciplining Bodies in the Gymnasium: Memory, Monument and Modernism.

• Prologue: Roberta J. Park, Polymathic and Polymorphic Pioneer: A Personal Appreciation J.A. Mangan ‘Embodied Selves’: The Rise and Development of Concern for Physical Education, Active Games and Recreation for American Women, 1776–1865Biological Thought, Athletics and the Formation of a ‘Man of Character’: 1830–1900Sport, Gender and Society in a Transatlantic Victorian PerspectiveMuscles, Symmetry and Action: ‘Do You Measure Up?’ Defining Masculinity in Britain and America from the 1860s to the Early 1900sPhysiologists, Physicians, and Physical Educators: Nineteenth Century Biology and Exercise, Hygienic and EducativeScience, Service, and the Professionalization of Physical Education: 1885–1905‘Cells or Soaring?’: Historical Reflections on ‘Visions’ of Body, Athletics, and Modern OlympismRoberta J. Park and the ‘Impossible Dream’: Keeping it Together for Physical Education and the Academy Patricia Vertinsky List of Roberta J. Park’s Publications