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Physical Culture and the Body Beautiful

Author : Jan Todd
Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865545618
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Physical Culture and the Body Beautiful written by Jan Todd and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Todd (kinesiology and health education, U. of Texas, Austin) discusses the diverse spectrum of women's exercise in the antebellum era-- especially exercise systems related to an ideal of womanhood--and the ways that purposive training influenced American women physically, intellectually, and emotionally. She also considers the contributions of several physical education figures: Sarah Pierce, Mary Lyon, William Bentley Fowle, Catherine Beecher, David P. Butler, Dio Lewis, and the phrenologist Orson S. Fowler. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

The History of Physical Culture in Ireland

Author : Conor Heffernan
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030637271
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The History of Physical Culture in Ireland written by Conor Heffernan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-24 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to deal with physical culture in an Irish context, covering educational, martial and recreational histories. Deemed by many to be a precursor to the modern interest in health and gym cultures, physical culture was a late nineteenth and early twentieth century interest in personal health which spanned national and transnational histories. It encompassed gymnasiums, homes, classrooms, depots and military barracks. Prior to this work, physical culture’s emergence in Ireland has not received thorough academic attention. Addressing issues of gender, childhood, nationalism, and commerce, this book is unique within an Irish context in studying an Irish manifestation of a global phenomenon. Tracing four decades of Irish history, the work also examines the influence of foreign fitness entrepreneurs in Ireland and contrasts them with their Irish counterparts.

The History of Physical Culture

Author : Conor Heffernan
Publisher : Common Ground Research Networks
ISBN 13 : 195779223X
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book The History of Physical Culture written by Conor Heffernan and published by Common Ground Research Networks. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physical culture can be crudely defined as those exercise practices designed to physically change the body. In modern parlance we may associate physical culture with weightlifting, physical education, and/or calisthenics of various kinds. While the modern age has experienced an explosion of interest in gym-based activities, the practice of training one’s body has a much longer, and fascinating, history. This book provides an engaged and accessible historical overview from the Ancient World to the Modern Day. In it, readers are introduced to the training practices of Ancient Greece, India, and China among other areas. From there, the book explores the evolution of exercise systems and messages in the Western World with reference to three distinct epochs: the Middles Ages and Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and its aftermath and the nineteenth to the present day. Throughout the book, attention is drawn not only to how societies exercised, but why they did so. The purpose of this book is to provide those new to the field of physical culture an historical overview of some of the major trends and developments in exercise practices. More than that, the book challenges readers to reflect on the numerous meanings attached to the body and its training. As is discussed, physical culture was linked to military, religious, educational, aesthetic, and gendered messages. The training of the body, across millennia, was always about much more than muscularity or strength. Here both the exercise systems, and their meanings are studied.

Walt Whitman and the Body Beautiful

Author : Harold Aspiz
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Walt Whitman and the Body Beautiful written by Harold Aspiz and published by Urbana : University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Physical Culture, Power, and the Body

Author : Jennifer Hargreaves
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (957 download)

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Download or read book Physical Culture, Power, and the Body written by Jennifer Hargreaves and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The physical body as perceived and experienced is a complex social creation. This book explores meanings and representations of body in relation to our physical cultures - our traditions of movement, sport and dance.

For Health and Beauty

Author : Mary Lynn Stewart
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801864834
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (648 download)

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Download or read book For Health and Beauty written by Mary Lynn Stewart and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She then examines compulsory education in hygiene and gymnastics, the flourishing genre of women's medical and sexual self-help literature, and the commercialization of health, beauty, and fitness products - all contributing to new scientific and commercial representations of the female body.

The Evolution of Aesthetic and Expressive Dance in Boston

Author : Jody Marie Weber
Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1604976217
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Aesthetic and Expressive Dance in Boston written by Jody Marie Weber and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Evolution of Aesthetic and Expressive Dance in Boston provides a regional history of the physical education pioneers who established the groundwork for women to participate in movement and expression. Their schools and their writing offer insights into the powerful cultural changes that were reconfiguring women's perceptions of their bodies in motion. The book examines the history from the first successful school of ballroom dance run by Lorenzo Papanti to the establishment of the Braggiotti School by Berthe and Francesca Braggiotti (two wealthy Bostonian socialites who used their power and money to support dance in Boston). The Delsartean ideas about beauty and the expressive capacity of the body freed upper-class women to explore movement beyond social dance and to enjoy movement as artistic self expression. Their interest and pleasure in early "parlor forms" engaged them as sponsors and advocates of expressive dance. Although revolutionaries such as Isadora Duncan and Ruth St. Denis also garnered support from Boston and New York's social sets, in Boston the relationship of the city's elite and its native dancers was both intimate and ongoing. The Braggiotti sisters did not use this support to embark on international tours; instead they founded a school that educated the children of their sponsors and offered performances for their own community. Although later artists, Miriam Winslow and Hans Weiner, did tour nationally and internationally, the intimate relationships they maintained with the upper echelon of Boston society required that they remain sensitive to the needs of their students and their community. Through the study of these schools, the reader is offered a unique perspective on the evolution of expressive dance as it unfolded in Boston and its environs. The Evolution of Aesthetic and Expressive Dance in Boston is an important book for those interested in dance history, women's studies, and regional histories.

Indian Club Swinging and the Birth of Global Fitness

Author : Conor Heffernan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135040165X
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Indian Club Swinging and the Birth of Global Fitness written by Conor Heffernan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerging in colonial India, the fitness fad that was Indian Club Swinging became a global exercise practice in the early 19th century. Used by physicians, soldiers, gymnasts, children and athletes alike, clubs were used to solve numerous social concerns and ills, and often prescribed to treat everything from depression to spinal abnormalities. This book provides a definitive account of the rise and spread of club swinging as it spread from India to Europe and America, asking why and how it became so popular. Discussing the global, commercial fitness culture of the 19th century, Indian Club Swinging and the Birth of Global Fitness explores how the popularity of this exercise reflected much deeper global and domestic concerns about body image, military preparation and education. Addressing broader questions about nationalism, gender, race and popular commerce across the British Empire, it highlights the origins of our modern transnational fitness culture and shows how it intersected with global and colonial understandings of health, medicine and education.

Qualitative Research for Physical Culture

Author : P. Markula
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230305636
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Qualitative Research for Physical Culture written by P. Markula and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a guide to qualitative research methods in the multidisciplinary field of physical culture. Developing an approach based on the '7 Ps' of research, this text navigates a pathway through the research process that will be invaluable as a teaching tool and to experienced and inexperienced researchers alike.

Critical Reflections on Physical Culture at the Edges of Empire

Author : Francois Johannes Cleophas
Publisher : African Sun Media
ISBN 13 : 1928480683
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book Critical Reflections on Physical Culture at the Edges of Empire written by Francois Johannes Cleophas and published by African Sun Media. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking anthology provides a transnational view of the use of physical culture practices - to strengthen, discipline, and reimagine the human body. Exploring theses of colonialism, gender disparities, and race relations, this international examination of bodily practices is a must read for all sport historians and those interested in physical training and its meanings. Erudite, solid, enlightening, this is a truly valuable book for our field.

Bodies of Reform

Author : James B. Salazar
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814741312
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Bodies of Reform written by James B. Salazar and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series From the patricians of the early republic to post-Reconstruction racial scientists, from fin de siècle progressivist social reformers to post-war sociologists, character, that curiously formable yet equally formidable “stuff,” has had a long and checkered history giving shape to the American national identity. Bodies of Reform reconceives this pivotal category of nineteenth-century literature and culture by charting the development of the concept of “character” in the fictional genres, social reform movements, and political cultures of the United States from the mid-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century. By reading novelists such as Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Pauline Hopkins, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman alongside a diverse collection of texts concerned with the mission of building character, including child-rearing guides, muscle-building magazines, libel and naturalization law, Scout handbooks, and success manuals, James B. Salazar uncovers how the cultural practices of representing character operated in tandem with the character-building strategies of social reformers. His innovative reading of this archive offers a radical revision of this defining category in U.S. literature and culture, arguing that character was the keystone of a cultural politics of embodiment, a politics that played a critical role in determining-and contesting-the social mobility, political authority, and cultural meaning of the raced and gendered body.

Physical Culture

Author : Bernarr Macfadden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Physical Culture written by Bernarr Macfadden and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Physical Culture, Power, and the Body

Author : Patricia Vertinsky
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134227043
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Physical Culture, Power, and the Body written by Patricia Vertinsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-11-28 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past decade, there has been an outpouring of books on 'the body' in society, but none has focused as specifically on physical culture - that is, cultural practices such as sport and dance within which the moving physical body is central. Questions are raised about the character of the body, specifically the relation between the ‘natural’ body, the ‘constructed’ body and the ‘alien’ or ‘virtual’ body. The themes of the book are wide in scope, including: physical culture and the fascist body sport and the racialised body sport medicine, health and the culture of risk the female Muslim sporting body, power, and politics experiencing the disabled sporting body embodied exhibitions of striptease and sport the social logic of sparring sport, girls and the neoliberal body. Physical Culture, Power, and the Body aims to break down disciplinary boundaries in its theoretical approaches and its readership. The author’s muli-disciplinary backgrounds, demonstrate the widespread topicality of physical culture and the body.

The Body Beautiful

Author : Arline Usden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780890098158
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book The Body Beautiful written by Arline Usden and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to physical fitness and diet to maintain strength, endurance and gain flexibility.

Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body

Author : Joshua I. Newman
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813591813
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body written by Joshua I. Newman and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-17 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body explores the extent to which the body, when moving about active body spaces (the gymnasium, the ball field, the lab, the running track, the beach, or the stadium) and those places less often connected to physical activity (the home, the street, the classroom, the automobile), is bounded to technologies of life and living, as well as to the political arrangements that seek to capitalize upon such frames of biological vitality. To do so, the authors problematize the rise of active body science (kinesiology, sport and exercise sciences, performance biotechnology) and the effects these scientific interventions have on embodied, lived experience. Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body offers a groundbreaking departure from representationalist tendencies and orthodoxies brought about by the cultural turn in sport and physical cultural studies. It brings the moving body and its physics back into focus: re-centering moving flesh as the locus of social order, environmental change, and the global political economy.

Reconstructing the Body

Author : Ana Carden-Coyne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199546460
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Reconstructing the Body written by Ana Carden-Coyne and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-20 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the ashes of war rose beauty, eroticism, and the promise of utopia. Ana Carden-Coyne investigates the cultures of resilience and the institutions of reconstruction in Britain, Australia, and the United States.

Through the Healing Glass

Author : John Stanislav Sadar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317562615
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Through the Healing Glass written by John Stanislav Sadar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-1920s a physiologist, a glass chemist, and a zoo embarked on a project which promised to turn buildings into medical instruments. The advanced chemistry of "Vita" Glass mobilised theories of light and medicine, health practices and glassmaking technology to compress an entire epoch’s hopes for a healthy life into a glass sheet – yet it did so invisibly. To communicate its advantage, Pilkington Bros. spared no expense as they launched the most costly and sophisticated marketing campaign in their history. Engineering need for "Vita" Glass employed leading-edge market research, evocative photography and vanguard techniques of advertising psychology, accompanied by the claim: "Let in the Health Rays of Daylight Permanently through "Vita" Glass Windows." This is the story of how, despite the best efforts of two glass companies, the leading marketing firm of the day, and the opinions of leading medical minds, "Vita" Glass failed. However, it epitomised an age of lightness and airiness, sleeping porches, flat roofs and ribbon windows. Moreover, through its remarkable print advertising, it strove to shape the ideal relationship between our buildings and our bodies.