Sport and Postmodern Times

Download or read book Sport and Postmodern Times written by Genevieve Rail and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1998-09-11 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides critical insight into the questions of race, gender, sexuality, and locality in sport and society. Topics discussed include postmodern sport writing; sport and the postmodern deconstruction of gender and sexuality; virtual sport and the postmodern mediascape; discipline, normalization, rationalization, surveillance, panopticism, and other forms of power used to "invest" postmodern sporting bodies; and new perspectives on sport and physical culture, consumer culture, and postmodern geography.