The Body Books

New and Published Books

1. Sport, Militarism and the Great War

   Martial Manliness and Armageddon

   Edited by Thierry Terret, J. A. Mangan

   Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

   The Great War has been largely ignored by historians of sport. However sport was an integral part of cultural conditioning into both physiological and psychological military efficiency in the decades leading up to it. It is time to acknowledge that the Great War also had an influence on sport in...

   Published April 11th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Urban Geography of Boxing

   Race, Class, and Gender in the Ring

   By Benita Heiskanen

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   This book is an interdisciplinary cultural examination of twenty-first century boxing as a professional sport, a bodily labor, a lucrative business, a popular entertainment, and an instrument of ideology. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews conducted with Latino boxers, women boxers, and...

   Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge
3. Phenomenological Approaches to Sport

   Edited by Irena Martínková, Jim Parry

   Series: Ethics and Sport

   The study of sport is often thought of simply in terms of the sport sciences. This book explains how a phenomenological approach is capable of revealing the nature and meanings of sport in ways that are beyond the reach of the sciences and how the very concepts required by sport science stand in...

   Published March 18th 2012 by Routledge
4. Ethics, Disability and Sports

   Edited by Ejgil Jespersen, Mike J. McNamee

   Series: Ethics and Sport

   This volume addresses a range of philosophical and ethical issues in adapted physical activity and disability sports participation more broadly. It is comprised of a range of essays by international scholars whose backgrounds embrace different traditions of philosophy, pedagogy and adapted physical...

   Published January 8th 2012 by Routledge
5. Sport and Sociology

   By Dominic Malcolm

   Series: Frontiers of Sport

   How has our understanding of sport been shaped by sociological ideas? How can the study of sport help sociologists to understand wider society? The sociology of sport is a sub-discipline approaching maturity. This is the first book to stand back and reflect upon the subject’s growth, to trace its...

   Published December 11th 2011 by Routledge
6. Bodily Democracy

   Towards a Philosophy of Sport for All

   By Henning Eichberg

   Series: Ethics and Sport

   Sport has gained increasing importance for welfare society. In this process, however, the term of ‘sport’ has become less and less clear. Larger parts of what nowadays is called ‘sport for all’ are non-competitive and derived from traditions of gymnastics, dance, festivity, games, outdoor...

   Published December 1st 2011 by Routledge
7. Ultimate Fighting and Embodiment

   Violence, Gender and Mixed Martial Arts

   By Dale C. Spencer

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   Mixed martial arts (MMA) is an emergent sport where competitors in a ring or cage utilize strikes (punches, kicks, elbows and knees) as well as submission techniques to defeat opponents. This book explores the carnal experience of fighting through a sensory ethnography of MMA, and how it...

   Published November 14th 2011 by Routledge
8. ‘Manufactured’ Masculinity

   Making Imperial Manliness, Morality and Militarism

   By J. A. Mangan

   Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

   'Manufactured' Masculinity should be considered essential reading for scholars in the humanities and social sciences at every level and in all parts of the academic world. It weaves together brilliantly the elements of the 'manufacture' of masculinity in the period world-famous 'public' school...

   Published October 26th 2011 by Routledge
9. Critical Readings in Bodybuilding

   Edited by Adam Locks, Niall Richardson

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   In recent years the ‘body’ has become one of the most popular areas of study in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Bodybuilding, in particular, continues to be of interest to scholars of gender, media, film, cultural studies and sociology. However, there is surprisingly little scholarship...

   Published July 26th 2011 by Routledge
10. Sport, Bodily Culture and Classical Antiquity in Modern Greece

    Edited by Eleni Fournaraki, Zinon Papakonstantinou

    Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

    Ancient Greece was the model that guided the emergence of many facets of the modern sports movement, including most notably the Olympics. Yet the process whereby aspects of the ancient world were appropriated and manipulated by sport authorities of nation-states, athletic organizations and their...

    Published May 11th 2011 by Routledge