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Boys, Bodies, and Physical Education: Problematizing Identity, Schooling, and Power Relations through a Pleasure Lens
Linnaeus University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sport Science.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2922-1993
2017 (English)Book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

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.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
New York: Routledge, 2017. , p. 216
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Routledge Critical Studies in Gender and Sexuality in Education
Keywords [en]
Physical education, gender, boys, masculinity, bodies, pleasure
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Gender Studies
Research subject
Social Sciences, Gender Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-60881DOI: 10.4324/9781315625577Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85021897842Libris ID: 20057280ISBN: 1317232402 (print)ISBN: 9781317232407 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-60881DiVA, id: diva2:1076426
Available from: 2017-02-22 Created: 2017-02-22 Last updated: 2019-05-28Bibliographically approved

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