This is a book about bodies; material bodies and their practices and the regulatory bodies that shape embodied selves and their experiences. Sport is the focus for an examination of the links and intersections between lived bodies and the body politic and its disciplinary apparatuses.

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'Woodward's work here offers a new understanding of embodied experiences in sport, and it opens up space for future feminist and other social scientific investigations of embodied human experience.'

- Katie Snyder Marr, Michigan Technological University, USA

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Open University, UK

Kath Woodward

About the author

Kath Woodward is Professor of Sociology and Head of Department in the Sociology Department at the Open University, UK. Her interests bring together feminist theory, gender studies and sport. She is author of Boxing, Masculinity and Identity, Social Sciences: The Big Issues, Why Feminism Matters, Embodied Sporting Practices, and Sex, Power and the Games.

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Book Title: Embodied Sporting Practices
Book Subtitle: Regulating and Regulatory Bodies
Authors: Kath Woodward
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230244658
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-24465-8Published: 05 February 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 206
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Sociology of the Body, Regional and Cultural Studies, Popular Science in Sports, Services, Popular Science, general

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