Overview

This anthology aims to throw a historical and a sociological light on the relation between sports, body culture and humanistic health science. More precisely, it intends to analyse how the health aspect from the beginning formed an important part when sports developed into a social institution in the second part of the 19th century and how it is still used in a legitimative fashion. In this connection, the gender aspect has to be taken into consideration as sports pertain to the two sexes in very different ways; thus much time was spent on debating whether sports were healthy for women while the health aspect was not discussed in relation to men.The basic idea of the anthology is that there are manifold cultural meanings and discourses surrounding sports, body and health. These meanings and discourses not only vary from time to time, but also function to mark the boundaries between social classes, races, nations, gender and ageing. Thus, the anthology provides an introduction to the cultural ambiguity and pluralism of the triplex: sports, body and health - and it rejects any notion of fundamentalism and universalism in the field.

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Author:   Jorn Hansen ,  Niels Kayser Nielsen
Publisher:   University Press of Southern Denmark
Imprint:   University Press of Southern Denmark
Dimensions:   Width: 18.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 26.00cm
Weight:   0.386kg
ISBN:  

9788778384744

ISBN 10:   8778384745
Pages:   166
Publication Date:   01 January 2000
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Introduction; The Cartesian Myth of Mind -- Body Dualism; Body, Health and Physical Education, 1870-1930; The Swedish Sports Movement and the Medical Profession; Healthy Living Between the Perilous and the Preventive; Representations of the Body in Old Age -- Cultural and Social Change; Life Cycle Sports: On Movement Culture and Ageing; Hysterisation of Womens' Bodies -- Legitimation of the Gendered Body in a sport and a Health Context in Norway from 1890 to 1950; The Rhetoric of Running -- the Representation of Kenyan Body Culture in the Early Twentieth Century; Gender, Moralist and the National Physical Education Curriculum; The Play Desert of the Big City; Embodies History --The Effect of Mazism on the Second and Third Post-War Generations in Germany.

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