Queer Bodies

Sexualities, Genders, and Fatness in Physical Education

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
157 Seiten
2010 | New edition
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4331-1162-4 (ISBN)
116,40 inkl. MwSt
Provides a critical examination of discrimination based on sexuality, gender, and body size in Canadian physical education. This book illustrates how students with queer bodies - whether lesbian, gay, transgendered, or overweight or fat - cope with homophobia, transphobia, and fat phobia in physical education.
This book brings together three areas of current public debate – sexuality, gender, and obesity – that will be of interest to curriculum workers, critical educators, physical educators, and professionals working in the areas of health, recreation, and sport. The book provides a critical examination of discrimination based on sexuality, gender, and body size in Canadian physical education. It illustrates how students with queer bodies – whether lesbian, gay, transgendered, or overweight or fat – cope with homophobia, transphobia, and fat phobia in physical education. Drawing from qualitative interviews with forty people, the book reveals how students are marginalized, in a variety of ways, because they do not conform to taken-for-granted ideas about healthy or athletic bodies. Using psychoanalytic, feminist, and queer theories, the book calls for critical educators to work toward ethical encounters with queer bodies in order to address these forms of discrimination in schools, physical education, and sport settings.

Heather Sykes is Associate Professor of Physical Education in the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Her research uses postmodern and queer theories to critically examine issues of sexuality, transgender, and fatness in physical education and sport sociology. Her work has been published in Body and Society, Journal of Curriculum Studies, and the Sociology of Sport Journal. She has also worked as co-editor of Curriculum Inquiry.

Reihe/Serie Complicated Conversation ; 36
Complicated Conversation ; 36
Mitarbeit Herausgeber (Serie): William F. Pinar
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 160 x 230 mm
Gewicht 360 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport Allgemeines / Lexika
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Allgemeines / Lexika
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Bildungstheorie
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Sozialpädagogik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
Schlagworte Curriculum, Physical Education, Sexualities, Transgender, Obesity, Embodiment
ISBN-10 1-4331-1162-4 / 1433111624
ISBN-13 978-1-4331-1162-4 / 9781433111624
Zustand Neuware
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