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Embodied Sporting Practices

Regulating and Regulatory Bodies

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  • © 2009

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Authors:
  1. Kath Woodward

    1. Open University, UK

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction: Regulating Bodies, Regulatory Bodies

    • Kath Woodward
    Pages 1-17

  3. Body Matters

    • Kath Woodward
    Pages 18-41

  4. Sport: Bodies at Play?

    • Kath Woodward
    Pages 42-70

  5. Equalities and Inequalities: Diversity and Neo-liberal Dilemmas

    • Kath Woodward
    Pages 71-97

  6. Embodied Selves: Situated Bodies, Bodies as Situations

    • Kath Woodward
    Pages 98-119

  7. Beyond Text: Spectacles, Sensations and Affects

    • Kath Woodward
    Pages 120-151

  8. Beyond Bodies

    • Kath Woodward
    Pages 152-175

  9. Conclusion

    • Kath Woodward
    Pages 176-186

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 187-206
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About this book

This is a book about bodies; material bodies and their practices and the regulatory bodies that shape embodied selves and their experiences. Sport is the focus for an examination of the links and intersections between lived bodies and the body politic and its disciplinary apparatuses.

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'Woodward's work here offers a new understanding of embodied experiences in sport, and it opens up space for future feminist and other social scientific investigations of embodied human experience.'

- Katie Snyder Marr, Michigan Technological University, USA

Authors and Affiliations

  • Open University, UK

    Kath Woodward

About the author

Kath Woodward is Professor of Sociology and Head of Department in the Sociology Department at the Open University, UK. Her interests bring together feminist theory, gender studies and sport. She is author of Boxing, Masculinity and Identity, Social Sciences: The Big Issues, Why Feminism Matters, Embodied Sporting Practices, and Sex, Power and the Games.

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