Sites of Sport: Space, Place, Experience

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• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Illustrations vii
• Series Editor's Foreword ix
• Introduction 1
• 1 - Locating a 'sense of Place': Space, Place and Gender in the Gymnasium 8
• 2 - Sensing the Stadium 25
• 3 - Educative Pools: Water, School and Space in Twentieth-Century France 39
• 4 - Freezing Social Relations: Ice, Rinks, and the Development of Figure Skating 57
• 5 - Just Another Classroom? Observations of Primary School Playgrounds 73
• 6 - Putting Bodies on the Line: Marching Spaces in Cold War Culture 85
• 7 - Homebush: Site of the Clean/Sed and Natural Australian Athlete 101
• 8 - Surf Lifesavers and Surfers: Cultural and Spatial Conflict on the Australian Beach 115
• 9 - Playing with Gravity: Mountains and Mountaineering 131
• 10 - The Homoerotic Space of Sport in Pornography 145
• 11 - The Space That (In)Difference Makes: (Re)Producing Subjectivities In/Through Abjection-A Locker Room Theoretical Study 159

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Illustrations vii
• Series Editor's Foreword ix
• Introduction 1
• 1 - Locating a 'sense of Place': Space, Place and Gender in the Gymnasium 8
• 2 - Sensing the Stadium 25
• 3 - Educative Pools: Water, School and Space in Twentieth-Century France 39
• 4 - Freezing Social Relations: Ice, Rinks, and the Development of Figure Skating 57
• 5 - Just Another Classroom? Observations of Primary School Playgrounds 73
• 6 - Putting Bodies on the Line: Marching Spaces in Cold War Culture 85
• 7 - Homebush: Site of the Clean/Sed and Natural Australian Athlete 101
• 8 - Surf Lifesavers and Surfers: Cultural and Spatial Conflict on the Australian Beach 115
• 9 - Playing with Gravity: Mountains and Mountaineering 131
• 10 - The Homoerotic Space of Sport in Pornography 145
• 11 - The Space That (In)Difference Makes: (Re)Producing Subjectivities In/Through Abjection-A Locker Room Theoretical Study 159
• 12 - For Pleasure? or Profit or Personal Health?: College Gymnasia as Contested Terrain 177
• Notes 205
• Bibliography 235
• Notes on Contributors 263
• Index 267