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9780415465137: Gender, Sport, Science: Selected Writings of Roberta J. Park
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ISBN 10 : 0415465133 ISBN 13 : 9780415465137
Editeur : Routledge, 2008

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

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.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0415465133
ISBN 13 
9780415465137
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
288
Éditeur
Mangan J. A., Vertinsky Patricia
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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