1st Edition
Disciplining Bodies in the Gymnasium Memory, Monument, Modernity
240 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
238 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
240 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Architecture and design have been used to exert control over bodies, across lines of class, gender and race. They regulate access to certain spaces and facilities, impose physical or psychological barriers, and make particular activities possible for specific groups. Built in 1951, the War Memorial Gymnasium at the University of British Columbia is a prize-winning example of modernist... Read more
1. Memory and Monument: Gymnasium as War Memorial 2. Designing the Million Dollar Gym: Modernism and Masculinity 3. 'Power Geometries': Disciplining the Gendered Body in the Spaces of the War Memorial Gymnasium 4. recreating the Student body: The Bowling Wars 5. Gold-Plated Footballs and Orchids for Girls, A 'Palace of Sweat' For Men 6. Designing Discipline: The Architecture of a Gymnasium 7. According to Plan: Remembering to Forget 8. No Body/ies in the Gym
Biography
Sherry Mckay, Patricia Vertinsky
In using the concepts of space, memory and commemoration, this collection offers a fresh approach which should prove valuable to historians,sport and higher education. Catherine Gidney, University of Waterloo
