Plasticity in Motion : Sport, Gender, and Biopolitics Hardback
by ROBERT M. FOSCHIA
Part of the Communicating Gender series
Hardback
Description
Plasticity in Motion: Sport, Gender, and Biopolitics argues that sport has a transformative power that, when engaged with habitually, can create bodies with the athletic ability to succeed at the incredible performances that captivate modern sports audiences.
Robert M. Foschia draws heavily from the influential and extensive work of Catherine Malabou on plasticity – the ability to shape and form – and similarly argues that transformation is not always positive or infinite, with the potential for accidents, injuries, and excommunications.
However, sport as a discursive space often precludes any mention of these negative transformations, asserting itself as pure potential and becoming, often to the exclusion of the feminine.
What occurs if the feminine enters into this space? Foschia intentionally integrates the feminine back into hypermasculine discussions of sport, opening a new realm of possible transformations to the ways we play, watch, and think about sports.
Scholars of communication, media studies, gender studies, rhetoric, and sports will find this book particularly useful.
Information
-
Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:220 pages
- Publisher:Lexington Books
- Publication Date:15/08/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781793639585
Information
-
Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:220 pages
- Publisher:Lexington Books
- Publication Date:15/08/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781793639585
