Gender, Sport, Science : Selected writings of Roberta J. Park

ISBN-13: 9780415465137 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 288 str.

A. Mangan J.

Opis

Published as an issue of the "International Journal of the History of Sport", this book presents a selection of the author's writings. It is of interest to scholars and students in Sports Studies, Physical Education, Health Studies, Sociology and Social Psychology.

O autorze

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.