Physical Culture and the Body Beautiful
Title | Physical Culture and the Body Beautiful PDF eBook |
Author | Jan Todd |
Publisher | Mercer University Press |
Pages | 398 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 9780865545618 |
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 and the Body Beautiful
Title | Physical Culture and the Body Beautiful PDF eBook |
Author | Jan Todd |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1052 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Exercise for women |
ISBN |
Physical Culture and the Body Beautiful
Title | Physical Culture and the Body Beautiful PDF eBook |
Author | Janice Suffolk Todd |
Publisher | |
Pages | 525 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Body Beautiful
Title | The Body Beautiful PDF eBook |
Author | Alice Bloch |
Publisher | |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 1933 |
Genre | Exercise for women |
ISBN |
Physical Culture, Power, and the Body
Title | Physical Culture, Power, and the Body PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Vertinsky |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 323 |
Release | 2006-11-28 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1134227043 |
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.
Walt Whitman and the Body Beautiful
Title | Walt Whitman and the Body Beautiful PDF eBook |
Author | Harold Aspiz |
Publisher | Urbana : University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
The History of Physical Culture in Ireland
Title | The History of Physical Culture in Ireland PDF eBook |
Author | Conor Heffernan |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2021-01-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3030637271 |
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.