摘要:

Eleanor Metheny devoted more than four decades of her life to the profession of physical education. From an examination of her work, several major themes emerge in her speaking and writing—scientific, historical, feminist, and philosophical. Ideas are overlapping, sometimes even contradictory; yet she is recognized as one of the preeminent thinkers in the profession. Never satisfied with the status quo, she regularly challenged and cajoled her students and colleagues to examine the past, assess the present, and look to the future. She was both pragmatic and idealistic, but when she spoke, others listened—to ideas often articulated“in a different voice.”My purpose in this paper is not to evaluate those ideas but rather to describe them from my personal point of view and as I perceived them to have developed over time.

ISSN:0033-6297    

DOI:10.1080/00336297.1991.10484015

出版商:Taylor&Francis Group    

年代:1991

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ISSN:0033-6297    

DOI:10.1080/00336297.1991.10484016

出版商:Taylor&Francis Group    

年代:1991

数据来源: Taylor

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This paper provides a discussion and synthesis of selections from three literatures that are concerned with the body, culture, and society. Work in the sociology of the body, informed by feminist poststructuralism, has important connections to themes and issues in the sociology of sport. Specific topics considered are the body, disciphry practices, and domination; gender, sport, and power; and the structural bases of disciplinary power.

ISSN:0033-6297    

DOI:10.1080/00336297.1991.10484017

出版商:Taylor&Francis Group    

年代:1991

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The oppressiveness of current ideals concerning female body size and shape in Euro-American culture has been well documented. Prevalent ideals of thinness are physiologically difficult for many women to achieve, and available techniques for reducing are greater health risks than fatness. Yet the number of women who attempt to reduce their bodies continues to increase. This essay analyzes America's obsession with thinness and its meanings for women's bodies and body identity. A summary of research challenging conventional beliefs about fatness is presented, followed by an exploration of the special meanings of fatness and slenderness for women in a culture that evaluates women on the basis of their appearance. The mind-body dualism experienced by women, especially fat women, in this environment is then discussed. An argument is made for rejecting the popular but unachievable and arbitrary standards of thinness and for abandoning the separation of mind and body inherent in the obsession with weight loss.

ISSN:0033-6297    

DOI:10.1080/00336297.1991.10484018

出版商:Taylor&Francis Group    

年代:1991

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This essay is based on a series of conversations with female bodybuilders. Our focus is on their efforts to make a place for themselves in a“male”sport. The paper analyzes their efforts to renegotiate the dominant masculine meanings of bodybuilding, thereby asserting their right to occupy this culturally contested terrain. It explores the ways in which women's culturally derived expertise in bodywork can be used as a political tool for the colonization of a male preserve.

ISSN:0033-6297    

DOI:10.1080/00336297.1991.10484019

出版商:Taylor&Francis Group    

年代:1991

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The rise of modernism was accompanied by changes in socially sanctioned uses and meanings of the human body. This paper examines the political status of the body in modernity and attempts to develop a theoretical framework for understanding the role of the modern state in the constitution of modernist bodily politics. The paper has four sections. The first two provide an overview of the work of two well-known theorists of the body, Foucault and Bourdieu. The third section briefly discusses 19th-century gymnastics in France to help illustrate the political uses of the body by the modem state. In the last section, some general conclusions are drawn in order to sketch out a framework for studying the politics of the body in the context of modernity.

ISSN:0033-6297    

DOI:10.1080/00336297.1991.10484020

出版商:Taylor&Francis Group    

年代:1991

数据来源: Taylor

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The current orthodoxy regarding science within sport science is rethought so as to enable the social sciences to enter the field and allow for a debate over the nature and purpose of the sport sciences. An alternative vision of the potential of the sport sciences is proposed: A more“scientific”picture of human beings may be produced if human beings are studied“in the round,”capturing them as whole selves, not as isolated physiological or psychological units. If a multidisciplinary synthesis were adopted, the subject, via its component disciplines, would provide a model for the reintegration of disciplines in the urgent need to study people in human-development and not performance-efficiency terms.

ISSN:0033-6297    

DOI:10.1080/00336297.1991.10484021

出版商:Taylor&Francis Group    

年代:1991

数据来源: Taylor

ISSN:0033-6297    

DOI:10.1080/00336297.1991.10484022

出版商:Taylor&Francis Group    

年代:1991

数据来源: Taylor

ISSN:0033-6297    

DOI:10.1080/00336297.1991.10484023

出版商:Taylor&Francis Group    

年代:1991

数据来源: Taylor

ISSN:0033-6297    

DOI:10.1080/00336297.1991.10484024

出版商:Taylor&Francis Group    

年代:1991

数据来源: Taylor