Muscularity, the Habitus and the Social Construction of Gender: Towards a gender-relevant physical education

British Journal of Sociology of Education

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 429-448

  Gorely, Trish ^a   Holroyd, Rachel ^a   Kirk, David ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141430905     PISSN: 01425692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01425690301923     Document Type: Review

References (75)

1. ARMOUR, K. M. (1999) The case for a body-focus in education and physical education, Sport, Education and Society, 4, pp. 5-16.
2. ARONOWITZ, S. & GIROUX, H. A. (1985) Education Under Siege: the conservative, liberal and radical debate over schooling (London, Routledge & Kegan Paul).
3. AUSTRALIAN SPORTS COMMISSION/HEART FOUNDATION (1993) Active Girls Can Do Anything (Belconnen, Australian Sports Commission/Heart Foundation).
4. BENN, T. (1996) Muslim women and physical education in initial teacher training, Sport, Education and Society, 1, pp. 5-22.
5. BORDO, S. (1990) Reading the slender body, in: M. JACOBUS, E. FOX-KELLNER & S. SHUTTLEWORTH (Eds.) Body/Politics: women and the discourse of science (New York, Routledge).
6. BOURDIEU, P. (1993) in: R. NICE (Trans.) Sociology in Question (London, Sage).
7. BRYSON, L. (1990) Challenges to male hegemony in sport, in: M. A.MESSNER & D. F. SABO (Eds.) Sport, Men and the Gender Order: critical feminist perspectives (Champaign, IL, Human Kinetics).
8. CALHOUN, C., LIPUMA, E. & POSTONE, M. (1995) Bourdieu: critical perspectives (Cambridge, Polity Press).
9. CONNELL, R. W. (1983) Which Way Is Up? Essays on sex, class and culture (Sydney, Allen & Unwin).
10. CONNELL, R. W. (1995) Masculinities (Sydney, Alien & Unwin).
11. CONNELL, R. W. (1996) Teaching the boys: new research on masculinity, and gender strategies for schools, Teachers College Record, 98, pp. 206-235.
12. Cox, B. & THOMPSON, S. (2000) Multiple bodies: sportswomen, soccer and sexuality, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 35, pp. 5-20.
13. DAVIES, B. & HARRE, R. (1990) Positioning: the discursive production of selves, Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 20, pp. 43-63.
14. DEEM, R. & GILROY, S. (1998) Physical activity, life-long learning and empowerment-situating sport in women's leisure, Sport, Education and Society, 3, pp. 89-104.
15. DUTTON, K. R. (1995) The Perfectible Body: the western ideal of physical development (London, Cassell).
16. ENNIS, C. D. (1999) Creating a culturally relevant curriculum for disengaged girls, Sport, Education and Society, 4, pp. 31-50.
17. EVANS, J. (1989) Equality and opportunity in the physical education curriculum, The ACHPER National Journal, 123, pp. 8-11.
18. FEATHERSTONE, M. (1982) The body in consumer culture, Theory, Culture and Society, 7, pp. 131-162.
19. FERNANDEZ-BALBOA, J.-M. (1997) Physical education teacher preparation in the postmodern era: toward a critical pedagogy, in: J.-M. FERNANDEZ-BALBOA (Ed.) Critical Postmodernism in Human Movement, Physical Education and Sport (Albany, NY, SUNY Press).
20. FLINTOFF, A. & SCRATON, S. (2001) Stepping into active leisure? Young women's perceptions of active lifestyles and their experiences of school physical education, Sport, Education and Society, 6, pp. 5-21.
21. FINKELSTEIN, J. (1991) The Fashioned Self (Cambridge, Polity Press).
22. GARD, M. (2001) Dancing around the 'problem' of boys and dance, Discourse: studies in the cultural politics of education, 22, pp. 213-225.
23. GARD, M. & MEYENN, R. (2000) Boys, bodies, pleasure and pain: interrogating contact sports in schools, Sport, Education and Society, 5, pp. 19-34.
24. GLASSNER, B. (1989) Fitness and the postmodern self, Journal of Health and Social Behaviour, 30, pp. 180-191.
25. GORE, J. (1993) The Struggle for Pedagogies: critical and feminist discourses as regimes of truth (New York, Routledge).
26. GRAYDON, J. (1997) Self-confidence and self-esteem in physical education and sport, in: G. CLARKE & B. HUMBERSTONE (Eds) Researching Women and Sport (London, Macmillan Press).
27. HALL, M. A. (1996) Feminism and Sporting Bodies: essays on theory and practice (Champaign, IL, Human Kinetics).
28. HALL, S. (1985) Signification, representation, ideology: Althusser and the post-structuralist debates, Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 2, pp. 91-114.
29. HARGREAVES, J. (1994) Sporting Females: critical issues in the history and sociology of women's sports (London, Routledge).
30. HARKER, R., MAHAR, C. & WILKES, C. (1990) An Introduction to the Work of Pierre Bourdieu: the practice of theory (London, Macmillan).
31. HELLISON, D. (1995) Teaching Responsibility Through Physical Activity (Champaign, IL, Human Kinetics).
32. HICKEY, C., FITZCLARENCE, L. & MATTHEWS, R. (Eds) (1998) Where the Boys Are: masculinity, sport and education (Geelong, Deakin University Press).
33. JARVIE, G. & MAGUIRE, J. (1994) Sport and Leisure in Social Thought (London, Routledge).
34. JENKINS, R. (1992) Pierre Bourdieu (London, Routledge).
35. KAY, T. (1995) Women and Sport - a review of research (London, Sports Council).
36. KENWAY, J. & BULLEN, E. (2001) Consuming Children: entertainment, advertising and education (London, Open University Press).
37. KENWAY, J. & FITZCLARENCE, L. (1997) Masculinity, violence and schooling: challenging 'poisonous pedagogies', Gender and Education, 9, pp. 117-134.
38. KLEIN, A. M. (1990) Little big man: hustling, gender narcissism, and bodybuilding subculture, in: M. A. MESSNER & D. F. SABO (Eds) Sport, Men and the Gender Order: critical feminist perspectives (Champaign, IL, Human Kinetics).
39. KIRK, D. (1999) Physical culture, physical education and relational analysis, Sport, Education and Society, 4, pp. 63-73.
40. KIRK, D. (2000) A task-based approach to critical pedagogy in sport and physical education, in: R. JONES & K. M. ARMOUR (Eds) Sociology of Sport: theory and practice (Harlow, Pearson).
41. KUHN, A. (1988) The body and cinema: some problems for feminism, in: S. SHERIDAN (Ed.) Grafts: feminist cultural criticism (London, Verso).
42. LABERGE, S. (1995) Towards an integration of gender into Bourdieu's concept of cultural capital. Sociology of Sport Journal, 12, pp. 132-146.
43. LEE, A., CARTER, J. A. & XIANG, P. (1995) Children's conceptions of ability in physical education, Journal of Teaching Physical Education, 14, pp. 384-393.
44. MACDONALD, D., NAUGHTIN, G. & WITTWER, N. (2000) Authentic sociology in secondary school physical education, in: R. JONES & K. M. ARMOUR (Eds) Sociology of Sport: theory and practice (Harlow, Pearson).
45. MARTINO, W. (1999) 'Cool Boys', 'Party Animals', 'Squids' and 'Poofters': interrogating the dynamics and politics of adolescent masculinities in school, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 20, pp. 239-263.
46. MATTHEWS, J. J. (1987) Building the body beautiful, Australian Feminist Studies, 5, pp. 17-34.
47. MAUSS, M. (1973) Techniques of the body, in: B. BREWSTER (Trans.), Economy and Society, 2, pp. 70-87.
48. MCLAREN, P. (1989) Schooling the postmodern body: critical pedagogy and the politics of enfleshment, Journal of Education, 170, pp. 53-83.
49. MCNAY, L. (1999) Gender, habitus and the field: Pierre Bourdieu and the limits of reflexivity, Theory, Culture and Society, 16, pp. 95-117.
50. MILES, S., CLIFF, D. & BURR, V. (1998) 'Fitting in and sticking out': consumption, consumer meanings and the construction of young people's identities, Journal of Youth Studies, 1, pp. 81-96.
51. MILLER, J. A. (2001) The product and process performance of the two handed sidearm strike for primary school-aged children: the interrelationship of coordination, age and gender. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of New England, Armidale.
52. MONAGHAN, L. F. (2000) Bodybuilding, Drugs and Risk (London, Routledge).
53. NILGES, L. M. (1998) I thought only fairy tales had supernatural power: a radical feminist analysis of Title IX in physical education, Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 17, pp. 172-194.
54. OLIVER, K. L. (1999) Adolescent girls' body-narratives: learning to desire and create a 'fashionable' image, Teachers' College Record, 101, pp. 220-246.
55. OLIVER, K. L. (2001) Images of the body from popular culture: engaging adolescent girls in critical inquiry, Sport, Education and Society, 6, pp. 143-164.
56. PAECHTER, C. (2001) Power, bodies and identity: how different forms of physical education construct varying masculinities and femininities in schools. Paper presented at the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, Leeds, September.
57. PENNEY, D. (Ed.) (2002) Gender and Physical Education: contemporary issues and future directions (London, Routledge).
58. PENNEY, D., CLARKE, G. & KINCHIN, G. (2002) Developing physical education as a 'connective specialism': is sport education the answer? Sport, Education and Society, 7, pp. 55-64.
59. REMOLD, E. (1997) 'All they've got on their brains is football': sport, masculinity and the gendered practices of playground relations, Sport, Education and Society, 2, pp. 5-24.
60. ROVEGNO, I. & KIRK, D. (1995) Articulations and silences in socially critical work on physical education: toward a broader agenda, Quest, 47, pp. 447-474.
61. SANTINA, B. & HULTGREN, F. (2001) The absent body of girls made visible: embodiment as the focus in education, Studies in Philosophy and Education, 20, pp. 521-534.
62. SHILLING, C. (1993) The Body and Social Theory (London, Sage).
63. SIEDENTOP, D. (Ed.) (1994) Sport Education: quality PE through positive sport experience (Champaign, IL, Human Kinetics).
64. SKELTON, C. (1998) Feminism and research into masculinities and schooling, Gender and Education, 10, pp. 217-227.
65. SKELTON, C. (2000) 'A passion for football': dominant masculinities and primary schooling, Sport, Education and Society, 5, pp. 5-18.
66. SPORT ENGLAND (2002) GirlSport [www.sportengland.org/active_communities].
67. THEBERGE, N. (1985) Towards a feminist alternative to sport as a male preserve, Quest, 37, pp. 193-202.
68. TURNER, B. S. (1984) The Body and Society: explorations in social theory (Oxford, Blackwell).
69. VERTINSKY, P. A. (1992) Reclaiming space, revisioning the body: the quest for gender-sensitive physical education, Quest, 44, pp. 373-396.
70. WILLIAMS, E. A. & BEDWARD, J. (1999) Games for the Girls-the impact of recent policy on the provision of physical education and sporting opportunities for female adolescents - a report of a study funded by the Nuffield Foundation (Winchester, Winchester King Alfred's College).
71. WILLIAMS, A. & BEDWARD, J. (2001) Gender, culture and the generation gap: student and teacher perceptions of aspects of the National Curriculum Physical Education, Sport, Education and Society, 6, pp. 53-66.
72. WRIGHT, J. (1996a) The construction of complementarity in physical education, Gender and Education, 8, pp. 61-80.
73. WRIGHT, J. (1996b) Mapping the discourses of physical education: articulating a female tradition, Journal of Curriculum Studies, 28, pp. 331-351.
74. YOUNG, I. M. (1980) 'Throwing like a girl': a phenomenology of feminine body comportment, motility and spatiality, Human Studies, 3, pp. 137-156.
75. YOUTH SPORT TRUST/NIKE (2001) Girls in Sport (Loughborough, Youth Sport Trust/Nike).