Physical Culture, Power, and the Body

Jennifer Hargreaves is Visiting Professor of Sport and Gender Politics at Brighton University, UK. Patricia Vertinsky is Professor of Human Kinetics and Distinguished University Scholar at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

• 1. Introduction 2. Movement Practices and Fascist Infections: From Dance Under the Swastika to Movement Education in the British Primary School 3. Political Somatics: Fascism, Physical Culture and the Sporting Body 4. Sport, Exercise and the Female Muslim Body: Negotiating Islam, Politics, and Male Power 5. Producing Girls: Empire, Sport, and the Neoliberal Body 6. Entertaining Femininities: The Embodied Exhibitions of Striptease and Sport, 1950-1975 7. The Social Logic of Sparring 8. Disabled Bodies and Narrative Time: Men, Sport, and Spinal Cord Injury 9. 'It's Not About Health, It's About Performance': Sport Medicine, Health and the Culture of Risk in Canadian Sport 10. Welcome to the Sportocracy: 'Race' and Sport After Innocence 11. Race and Athletics in the 21st Century 12. Technologized Bodies: Virtual Women and Transformations in Understandings of the Body as Natural