Gender, Sport, Science
Selected writings of Roberta J. Park
1st Edition
Published on 10. April 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-1-138-88044-3 (ISBN)
Description
Roberta J. Park has been throughout her distinguished career a scholar with a mission - to win academic recognition of the significance of the body in culture and cultures. Her scholarship has earned her global esteem in the disciplines of Physical Education and Sports Studies for its penetrating insights.
This selection of her writings is a well-deserved tribute to her interpretive originality, her intellectual acuity and her ability to inspire colleagues and students.
To explore unexplored patterns has been her extraordinary strength. The result has been continual originality of insight. These writings are thus a unique compilation of scholastic creativity of major interest to scholars and students in Sports Studies, Physical Education, Health Studies, Sociology and Social Psychology.
This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.
This selection of her writings is a well-deserved tribute to her interpretive originality, her intellectual acuity and her ability to inspire colleagues and students.
To explore unexplored patterns has been her extraordinary strength. The result has been continual originality of insight. These writings are thus a unique compilation of scholastic creativity of major interest to scholars and students in Sports Studies, Physical Education, Health Studies, Sociology and Social Psychology.
This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
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Height: 246 mm
Width: 189 mm
Weight
498 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-88044-3 (9781138880443)
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Persons
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.
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.
Content
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, 1776-1865
Biological Thought, Athletics and the Formation of a 'Man of Character': 1830-1900
Sport, Gender and Society in a Transatlantic Victorian Perspective
Muscles, Symmetry and Action: 'Do You Measure Up?' Defining Masculinity in Britain and America from the 1860s to the Early 1900s
Physiologists, Physicians, and Physical Educators: Nineteenth Century Biology and Exercise, Hygienic and Educative
Science, Service, and the Professionalization of Physical Education: 1885-1905
'Cells or Soaring?': Historical Reflections on 'Visions' of Body, Athletics, and Modern Olympism
Roberta J. Park and the 'Impossible Dream': Keeping it Together for Physical Education and the Academy Patricia Vertinsky
List of Roberta J. Park's Publications
'Embodied Selves': The Rise and Development of Concern for Physical Education, Active Games and Recreation for American Women, 1776-1865
Biological Thought, Athletics and the Formation of a 'Man of Character': 1830-1900
Sport, Gender and Society in a Transatlantic Victorian Perspective
Muscles, Symmetry and Action: 'Do You Measure Up?' Defining Masculinity in Britain and America from the 1860s to the Early 1900s
Physiologists, Physicians, and Physical Educators: Nineteenth Century Biology and Exercise, Hygienic and Educative
Science, Service, and the Professionalization of Physical Education: 1885-1905
'Cells or Soaring?': Historical Reflections on 'Visions' of Body, Athletics, and Modern Olympism
Roberta J. Park and the 'Impossible Dream': Keeping it Together for Physical Education and the Academy Patricia Vertinsky
List of Roberta J. Park's Publications