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Boys, Bodies, and Physical Education Problematizing Identity, Schooling, and Power Relations through a Pleasure Lens
By Göran Gerdin
Copyright 2017
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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Using visual ethnography, this book explores the many forms of pleasures that boys derive in and through the spaces and their bodies in physical education. Employing the works of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, Gerdin examines how pleasure is connected to identity, schooling, and power relations, and demonstrates how discourses of sport, fitness, health and masculinity work together to produce... Read more
Part I: Background 1. Boys will be Boys? 2. Gender, Bodies, Spaces and (dis)Pleasures 3. Visual Ethnography of Boys’ PE Part 2: A Visual Ethnography of Kea College 4. Sporting and Masculinising Spaces: The Performative and Pleasurable Spaces of Boys’ PE 5. The Production of Masculine (dis)Pleasures in Boys’ PE 6. ‘Sporty’, ‘Fit’ and ‘Healthy’: The Materialisation of Pleasurable Bodies in Boys’ PE 7. The (dis)Pleasures of Learning in, through and about Movement
Biography
Göran Gerdin is Senior Lecturer of Physical Education and Sport at Linnaeus University, Sweden.
