Boys, Bodies, and Physical Education: Problematizing Identity, Schooling, and Power Relations through a Pleasure Lens

Author:   Göran Gerdin (Linnaeus University, Sweden)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138649972


Pages:   232
Publication Date:   24 January 2017
Format:   Hardback
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Boys, Bodies, and Physical Education: Problematizing Identity, Schooling, and Power Relations through a Pleasure Lens


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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 a variety of pleasurable experiences. At the same time, the book provides a critique of such pleasurable experiences within physical education by illustrating how these pleasures can still, for some boys, quickly turn into displeasures and can be associated with exclusion, humiliation, bullying and homophobia. Boys, Bodies, and Physical Education argues that pleasure can both be seen as an educational and productive practice in physical education but also a constraint that both engenders and privileges some boys over others as well as (re)producing narrow and limited conceptions of masculinity and pleasures for all boys. This book works to problematize these pleasures and their articulations with gender, bodies, and spaces.

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Author:   Göran Gerdin (Linnaeus University, Sweden)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138649972


ISBN 10:   113864997
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   24 January 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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

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Göran Gerdin is Senior Lecturer of Physical Education and Sport at Linnaeus University, Sweden.

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