The Cultural Politics of the Paralympic Movement

Through an Anthropological Lens

By P. David Howe

Do the Paralympic Games empower the disability sport community?

Like many other contemporary sporting institutions, the Paralympic Games have made the transition from pastime to...

February 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-28887-3 (Routledge)

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Fit for Consumption

Sociology and the Business of Fitness

By Jennifer Smith Maguire

This is the first text to offer a comprehensive socio-cultural and historical analysis of the current fitness culture.

Fitness today is not simply about health clubs and...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42181-2 (Routledge)

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Physical Culture, Power, and the Body

Edited by Patricia Vertinsky, Jennifer HargreavesJennifer HargreavesIan McDonald

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...

2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-36352-5 (Routledge)

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Foucault, Sport and Exercise

Power, Knowledge and Transforming the Self

By Pirkko Markula-Denison, Richard Pringle

Michel Foucault’s work profoundly influences the way we think about society, in particular how we understand social power, the self, and the body. This book...

2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-35863-7 (Routledge)

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Drugs, Alcohol and Sport

A Critical History

Edited by Paul Dimeo

The use of alcohol and drugs seems contradictory to the popular ideal of sport as a healthy moral and physical pursuit, and yet it has...

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-40016-9 (Routledge)

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Italian Fascism and the Female Body

Sport, Submissive Women and Strong Mothers

By Gigliola Gori

This is the first text to examine women and sport in Italy during the period 1861-1945. To qualify and quantify the impact of fascism on...

2004 | Paperback: 978-0-7146-8291-4 (Routledge)

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Running Cultures

Racing in Time and Space

By John Bale

Running is one of the world's most widely practiced sports and recreations but until now it has intended to elude serious study outside of the...

2004 | Paperback: 978-0-7146-8424-6 (Routledge)

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An Introduction to Drugs in Sport

Addicted to winning?

By Ivan Waddington, Andrew Smith

Why do many athletes risk their careers by taking performance enhancing drugs? Do the highly competitive pressures elite sports teach athletes to win at any...

2000 | Paperback: 978-0-419-25200-9 (Routledge)

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