Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 467 g
Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 467 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-539564-8
Verlag: ACADEMIC
At the cutting edge of scholarship on the body
At the intersection of sports history; works on gender and the body; and histories of the society and culture of Germany's Weimar Republic
Reveals that women's boxing and many of the developments attributed to Title XI have a history that stretches back to 1920s Germany
Argues for a new look at Weimar Germany as a society marked not simply by crisis in the negative sense, but also by crisis in the positive sense - a time and place where anxiety, debate and experimentation led to remarkable innovations
Body by Weimar argues that male and female athletes fundamentally recast gender roles during Germany's turbulent post-World War I years and established the basis for a modern body and modern sensibility that remain with us to this day. Athletes in the 1920s took the same techniques that were streamlining factories and offices and applied them to maximizing the efficiency of their own flesh and bones. Sportswomen and men embodied modernity - quite literally - in all of ist competitive, time-oriented excess and thereby helped to popularize, and even to naturalize, the sometimes threatening process of economic rationalization by linking it to their own personal success stories. Enthroned by the media as the new cultural icons, athletes radiated sexual empowerment, social mobility, and self-determination. Champions in tennis, boxing, and track and field showed their fans how to be "modern," and, in the process, sparked heated debates over the limits of the physical body, the obligations of citizens to the state, and the relationship between the sexes. If the images and debates in this book strike readers as familiar, it might well be because the ideal body of today - sleek, efficient, and equally available to men and women - received ist first articulation in the fertile tumult of Germany's roaring twenties. After more than eighty years, we still want the Weimar body.
Zielgruppe
Scholars and students of sports, gender, women's studies, and the body in all fields, including sociology, anthropology, history, English and the modern languages, and kinesiology. Scholars of modern German history and of cultural and social history. General readers of sports history, especially boxing, tennis, and track.
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Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
Weitere Infos & Material
Introduction: Building a Better German
1.: Disorder on the Court: Soft Men, Hard Women, and Steamy Tennis
2.: Belle of the Brawl: The Boxer between Sensationalism and Sport
3.: German Engineering: Duty, Performance, and the Track and Field Athlete
Conclusion: Body beyond Weimar: Germany's Athletic Legacy
Notes
Index
