Physical Culture And The Body Beautiful
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Physical Culture And The Body Beautiful
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Author : Jan Todd
language : en
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Release Date : 1998
Physical Culture And The Body Beautiful written by Jan Todd and has been published by Mercer University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Health & Fitness categories.
Todd (kinesiology and health education, U. of Texas, Austin) discusses the diverse spectrum of women's exercise in the antebellum era-- especially exercise systems related to an ideal of womanhood--and the ways that purposive training influenced American women physically, intellectually, and emotionally. She also considers the contributions of several physical education figures: Sarah Pierce, Mary Lyon, William Bentley Fowle, Catherine Beecher, David P. Butler, Dio Lewis, and the phrenologist Orson S. Fowler. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Physical Culture Power And The Body
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Author : Patricia Vertinsky
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2006-11-28
Physical Culture Power And The Body written by Patricia Vertinsky and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-28 with Performing Arts categories.
During the past decade, there has been an outpouring of books on 'the body' in society, but none has focused as specifically on physical culture - that is, cultural practices such as sport and dance within which the moving physical body is central. Questions are raised about the character of the body, specifically the relation between the ‘natural’ body, the ‘constructed’ body and the ‘alien’ or ‘virtual’ body. The themes of the book are wide in scope, including: physical culture and the fascist body sport and the racialised body sport medicine, health and the culture of risk the female Muslim sporting body, power, and politics experiencing the disabled sporting body embodied exhibitions of striptease and sport the social logic of sparring sport, girls and the neoliberal body. Physical Culture, Power, and the Body aims to break down disciplinary boundaries in its theoretical approaches and its readership. The author’s muli-disciplinary backgrounds, demonstrate the widespread topicality of physical culture and the body.
Managing The Body
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Author : Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Managing The Body written by Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Body image categories.
"Managing the Body explores the emergence of modern male and female bodies within the context of debates about racial fitness and active citizenship in Britain from the 1880s until 1939. It analyses the growing popularity of hygienic regimen or body management such as dietary restrictions, exercise, sunbathing, dress reform, and birth control to cultivate beauty, health, and fitness. These bodily disciplines were advocated by a loosely connected group of life reform and physical culture promoters, doctors, and public health campaigners against the background of rapid urbanization, the rise of modern lifestyles, a proliferation of visual images of beautiful bodies, and eugenicist fears about racial degeneration.
For Health And Beauty
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Author : Mary Lynn Stewart
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2001
For Health And Beauty written by Mary Lynn Stewart and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Education categories.
She then examines compulsory education in hygiene and gymnastics, the flourishing genre of women's medical and sexual self-help literature, and the commercialization of health, beauty, and fitness products - all contributing to new scientific and commercial representations of the female body.
The History Of Physical Culture In Ireland
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Author : Conor Heffernan
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-01-24
The History Of Physical Culture In Ireland written by Conor Heffernan and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-24 with History categories.
This book is the first to deal with physical culture in an Irish context, covering educational, martial and recreational histories. Deemed by many to be a precursor to the modern interest in health and gym cultures, physical culture was a late nineteenth and early twentieth century interest in personal health which spanned national and transnational histories. It encompassed gymnasiums, homes, classrooms, depots and military barracks. Prior to this work, physical culture’s emergence in Ireland has not received thorough academic attention. Addressing issues of gender, childhood, nationalism, and commerce, this book is unique within an Irish context in studying an Irish manifestation of a global phenomenon. Tracing four decades of Irish history, the work also examines the influence of foreign fitness entrepreneurs in Ireland and contrasts them with their Irish counterparts.
Sport Physical Culture And The Moving Body
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Author : Joshua I. Newman
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2020-01-17
Sport Physical Culture And The Moving Body written by Joshua I. Newman and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-17 with Science categories.
Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body explores the extent to which the body, when moving about active body spaces (the gymnasium, the ball field, the lab, the running track, the beach, or the stadium) and those places less often connected to physical activity (the home, the street, the classroom, the automobile), is bounded to technologies of life and living, as well as to the political arrangements that seek to capitalize upon such frames of biological vitality. To do so, the authors problematize the rise of active body science (kinesiology, sport and exercise sciences, performance biotechnology) and the effects these scientific interventions have on embodied, lived experience. Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body offers a groundbreaking departure from representationalist tendencies and orthodoxies brought about by the cultural turn in sport and physical cultural studies. It brings the moving body and its physics back into focus: re-centering moving flesh as the locus of social order, environmental change, and the global political economy.
The History Of Physical Culture
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Author : Conor Heffernan
language : en
Publisher: Common Ground Research Networks
Release Date : 2022-12-15
The History Of Physical Culture written by Conor Heffernan and has been published by Common Ground Research Networks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-15 with Health & Fitness categories.
Physical culture can be crudely defined as those exercise practices designed to physically change the body. In modern parlance we may associate physical culture with weightlifting, physical education, and/or calisthenics of various kinds. While the modern age has experienced an explosion of interest in gym-based activities, the practice of training one’s body has a much longer, and fascinating, history. This book provides an engaged and accessible historical overview from the Ancient World to the Modern Day. In it, readers are introduced to the training practices of Ancient Greece, India, and China among other areas. From there, the book explores the evolution of exercise systems and messages in the Western World with reference to three distinct epochs: the Middles Ages and Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and its aftermath and the nineteenth to the present day. Throughout the book, attention is drawn not only to how societies exercised, but why they did so. The purpose of this book is to provide those new to the field of physical culture an historical overview of some of the major trends and developments in exercise practices. More than that, the book challenges readers to reflect on the numerous meanings attached to the body and its training. As is discussed, physical culture was linked to military, religious, educational, aesthetic, and gendered messages. The training of the body, across millennia, was always about much more than muscularity or strength. Here both the exercise systems, and their meanings are studied.
Remaking The Male Body
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Author : Joan Tumblety
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-10-04
Remaking The Male Body written by Joan Tumblety and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-04 with History categories.
The first monograph to explore the imagined link between male athletic prowess and national strength in interwar France. It ultimately sheds light on the roots of Vichy's project for masculine regeneration after the military defeat of 1940.
Bodies Of Reform
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Author : James B. Salazar
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2010-09-15
Bodies Of Reform written by James B. Salazar and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-15 with History categories.
Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series From the patricians of the early republic to post-Reconstruction racial scientists, from fin de siècle progressivist social reformers to post-war sociologists, character, that curiously formable yet equally formidable “stuff,” has had a long and checkered history giving shape to the American national identity. Bodies of Reform reconceives this pivotal category of nineteenth-century literature and culture by charting the development of the concept of “character” in the fictional genres, social reform movements, and political cultures of the United States from the mid-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century. By reading novelists such as Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Pauline Hopkins, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman alongside a diverse collection of texts concerned with the mission of building character, including child-rearing guides, muscle-building magazines, libel and naturalization law, Scout handbooks, and success manuals, James B. Salazar uncovers how the cultural practices of representing character operated in tandem with the character-building strategies of social reformers. His innovative reading of this archive offers a radical revision of this defining category in U.S. literature and culture, arguing that character was the keystone of a cultural politics of embodiment, a politics that played a critical role in determining-and contesting-the social mobility, political authority, and cultural meaning of the raced and gendered body.
Indian Club Swinging And The Birth Of Global Fitness
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Author : Conor Heffernan
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-12-14
Indian Club Swinging And The Birth Of Global Fitness written by Conor Heffernan and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-14 with History categories.
Emerging in colonial India, the fitness fad that was Indian Club Swinging became a global exercise practice in the early 19th century. Used by physicians, soldiers, gymnasts, children and athletes alike, clubs were used to solve numerous social concerns and ills, and often prescribed to treat everything from depression to spinal abnormalities. This book provides a definitive account of the rise and spread of club swinging as it spread from India to Europe and America, asking why and how it became so popular. Discussing the global, commercial fitness culture of the 19th century, Indian Club Swinging and the Birth of Global Fitness explores how the popularity of this exercise reflected much deeper global and domestic concerns about body image, military preparation and education. Addressing broader questions about nationalism, gender, race and popular commerce across the British Empire, it highlights the origins of our modern transnational fitness culture and shows how it intersected with global and colonial understandings of health, medicine and education.