"Governmentality" in the Origins of European Female PE and Sport: The Spanish Case Study (1883-1936)

Autor/inn/en	Garcia, Raul Sanchez; Herraiz, Antonio Rivero
Titel	"Governmentality" in the Origins of European Female PE and Sport: The Spanish Case Study (1883-1936)
Quelle	In: Sport, Education and Society, 18 (2013) 4, S.494-510 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1357-3322
DOI	10.1080/13573322.2011.601735
Schlagwörter	Case Studies; Foreign Countries; Physical Education Teachers; Females; Human Body; Power Structure; Physical Activities; Role; Athletics; Social Class; Personal Autonomy; Educational History; Womens Education; Femininity; Educational Methods; Clothing; Spain + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Ausland; Physical education; Physical training; Teacher; Teachers; Sportlehrer; Weibliches Geschlecht; Menschlicher Körper; Rollen; Leichtathletik; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Individuelle Autonomie; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; 'Women''s education'; Frauenbildung; Femaleness; Weiblichkeit; Educational method; Erziehungsmethode; Kleidung; Spanien
Abstract	The purpose of the paper is twofold: (1) to contribute to the analysis of the origins of modern European female PE and sports from a power perspective, inspired by Foucault's work; and (2) to present a detailed analysis of female PE and sport in Spain (1883-1936) as a specific European case study. It is argued that these physical activities could be conceived in the Spanish case as part of a specific kind of "governmentality" with a dual nature. On the one hand they represented disciplinary "technologies of power" over the female body. Selected physical activities--dictated mainly from the hygienic-moral position of the "Regeneracionistas" ("Regenerationists")--were exerted as a kind of "bio-power" for the control of the female population. On the other hand, such kind of activities (especially sports) represented certain "technologies of the self" for middle and upper class women. Through participation in sports, women gained a more active and public role in the Spanish society of the era, obtaining some degree of autonomy in self-governance over their bodies and their lives. (Contains 4 figures and 5 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10