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Sport, Technology and the Body

The nature of performance

By Tara Magdalinski

What is the nature of athletic performance? This book offers an answer to this fascinating question by considering the relationship between sport, technology and the…

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October 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-37876-5 (Routledge)

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The Body in Question

A Socio-Cultural Approach

By Alan Petersen

Why is there currently such strong academic and popular interest in ‘the body’ in contemporary societies? What factors shape our conceptions of the body, its…

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2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32162-4 (Routledge)

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Telling Flesh

The Substance of the Corporeal

By Vicki Kirby

In Telling Flesh, Vicki Kirby addresses a major theoretical issue at the intersection of the social sciences and feminist theory -- the separation of nature…

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1997 | Paperback: 978-0-415-91029-3 (Routledge)

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Body/Politics

Women and the Discourses of Science

Edited by Mary Jacobus, Evelyn Fox Keller, Sally Shuttleworth

Body/Politics demonstrates how many of the controversies in modern science involve or invoke the feminine body as their battleground. This groundbreaking collection addresses such scientific…

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1989 | Paperback: 978-0-415-90131-4 (Routledge)

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Rethinking Disability: Bodies, Senses, and Things
By Michael Schillmeier
To be published December 15th 2009

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