Gender, Sport, Science

Selected writings of Roberta J. Park

J. A. Mangan, Patricia Vertinsky, J. A. Mangan, Patricia Vertinsky

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781138880443
• eBook ISBN: 9781317968412
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

Roberta J. Park has been throughout her distinguished career a scholar with a mission - to win academic recognition of the significance of the body in culture and cultures. Her scholarship has earned her global esteem in the disciplines of Physical Education and Sports Studies for its penetrating insights.

This selection of her writings is a well-deserved tribute to her interpretive originality, her intellectual acuity and her ability to inspire colleagues and students.

To explore unexplored patterns has been her extraordinary strength. The result has been continual originality of insight. These writings are thus a unique compilation of scholastic creativity of major interest to scholars and students in Sports Studies, Physical Education, Health Studies, Sociology and Social Psychology.

This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Series Editors' Foreword
• Other Titles in the Series
• 1 Prologue: Roberta J. Park, Polymathic and Polymorphic Pioneer: A Personal Appreciation
• 2 ‘Embodied Selves’: The Rise and Development of Concern for Physical Education, Active Games and Recreation for American Women, 1776–1865
• 3 Biological Thought, Athletics and the Formation of a ‘Man of Character’: 1830–1900
• 4 Sport, Gender and Society in a Transatlantic Victorian Perspective
• 5 Muscles, Symmetry and Action: ‘Do You Measure Up?’ Defining Masculinity in Britain and America from the 1860s to the Early 1900s
• 6 Physiologists, Physicians, and Physical Educators: Nineteenth Century Biology and Exercise, Hygienic and Educative
• 7 Science, Service, and the Professionalization of Physical Education: 1885–1905
• 8 ‘Cells or Soaring?’: Historical Reflectons on ‘Visions’ of Body, Athletics, and Modern Olympism
• 9 Epilogue: Roberta J. Park and the ‘Impossible Dream’: Keeping it Together for Physical Education and the Academy
• 10 List of Roberta Park's Publications
• Index