Author : Genevieve Rail
Release : 1998-09-11
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 741/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Sport and Postmodern Times by : Genevieve Rail
Download or read book Sport and Postmodern Times written by Genevieve Rail. This book was released on 1998-09-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides critical insight into the questions of race, gender, sexuality, and locality in sport and society. Topics discussed include postmodern sport writing; sport and the postmodern deconstruction of gender and sexuality; virtual sport and the postmodern mediascape; discipline, normalization, rationalization, surveillance, panopticism, and other forms of power used to "invest" postmodern sporting bodies; and new perspectives on sport and physical culture, consumer culture, and postmodern geography.