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Disciplining Bodies in the Gymnasium: Memory, Monument, Modernism
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Disciplining Bodies in the Gymnasium: Memory, Monument, Modernism Soft cover - 2004 - 1st Edition

by Vertinsky, Patricia and McKay, Sherry (eds)

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London: Routledge, 2004. First Edition . Soft cover. New. NEW BOOK, a collection of essays showing that the built form has politics, and culture - sporting culture - is just politics by another name; pp xiii, 223.
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  • Title Disciplining Bodies in the Gymnasium: Memory, Monument, Modernism
  • Author Vertinsky, Patricia and McKay, Sherry (eds)
  • Binding Soft cover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge, London
  • Date 2004
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 012192
  • ISBN 9780714684093 / 0714684090
  • Weight 0.83 lbs (0.38 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.14 x 6.7 x 0.54 in (23.22 x 17.02 x 1.37 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects War Memorial Gymnasium (Vancouver, B.C.), Gymnasiums - British Columbia - Design and
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004050815
  • Dewey Decimal Code 725.850

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From the publisher

Architecture and design have been used to exert control over bodies, across lines of class, gender and race. They regulate access to certain spaces and facilities, impose physical or psychological barriers, and make particular activities possible for specific groups.
Built in 1951, the War Memorial Gymnasium at the University of British Columbia is a prize-winning example of modernist architecture. Although conceived to honour the dead of World War II, it was far from being a neutral memorial and gymnasium for everyday athletes.

This collection shows what the design, construction and shifting functions and spatial configurations of the building reveal about the values and aspirations of the university in the post-war years. It shows how the building reflected the social and power relations among university administrators, architects and planners, faculty, staff and students, and demonstrates how the culture and structure of the gymnasium responded to changing attitudes to competition, discipline, profession, gender, race and health. As the editors explain, built form has politics, and culture - sporting culture - is just politics by another name.

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In the history of physical education there are few more long-standing, impassioned and yet inconclusive debates than those around the fate and fortunes of the discipline and the profession.

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