Boys, Bodies, and Physical Education: Problematizing Identity, Schooling, and Power Relations through...

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Göran Gerdin (Linnaeus University, Sweden)

Boys, Bodies, and Physical Education

Problematizing Identity, Schooling, and Power Relations through a Pleasure Lens

Göran Gerdin (Linnaeus University, Sweden)

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Routledge
07 June 2019

Gender studies, gender groups; Moral & social purpose of education; Teaching of a specific subject; Educational: Physical education (including dance)

Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Gender and Sexuality in Education

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.

By: Göran Gerdin (Linnaeus University Sweden)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9780367195212
ISBN 10: 0367195216
Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Gender and Sexuality in Education
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 07 June 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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