Physical education (PE) is a subject imbued with different discourses—as associated with, for instance, health, sport, education, the body, and physical activity—that make it subject to different perspectives and interpretations. Discourses are practices that systematically form the objects of
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Bodily Uncertainty, Precarious Body: An Embodied Narrative of a Physical Education Teacher From an Autobiographical Perspective
Gustavo González-Calvo and Göran Gerdin
A Poststructural Analysis of High School Students’ Gender and Racialized Bodily Meanings
Laura Azzarito and Melinda A. Solmon
Recently, national studies have reported on young people’s low level of participation in physical activity. Because the effect of gender and racial differences among youth participating in physical activity have not been sufficiently addressed, examining the social construction of the body in physical education can provide valuable insights. This study uses poststructuralism as a lens to investigate how students’ construction of meanings around the body varied by gender and race, and how bodily meanings related to students’ participation in physical education classes. The participants were 528 students from public high schools. An instrument was used to assess students’ racial and gendered construction of bodily meanings around specific discursive constructs. Results indicated that students’ meanings differ by race and gender, especially in regard to size, power, muscularity, and appearance. These findings suggest that bodily meanings were influential in students’ self-reported levels of participation in physical education classes.
Body Size and Movement
John H. Challis
feeding Gulliver, the Lilliputians provided him with 1,728 times as much food as the average Lilliputian; their theory being that nutritional requirements are proportional to body mass, and that body mass scales in proportion to standing height cubed ( 12 3 = 1,728 ). It turns out that metabolic energy
Weighing the Body: Women Olympic Weightlifters Negotiating Weight Class, Body Image, and the Unruly Body
Monica Nelson and Shannon Jette
At every level, Olympic Weightlifting seems to reject feminine body ideals. Separated into gender and weight class categories, athletes compete against each other in two lifts: the snatch (a ground-to-overhead lift completed in a single movement) and the clean and jerk (a ground-to-overhead lift
Comparison of Body Composition Assessment Methods in Professional Urban Firefighters
Disa J. Smee, Anthony Walker, Ben Rattray, Julie A. Cooke, Ben G. Serpell, and Kate L. Pumpa
Australian fire services, like many jurisdictions worldwide, are experiencing an ageing workforce. As occurs in the general population ( Kyle et al., 2001 ), increasing age is linked with changes in the body composition of urban firefighters ( Walker et al., 2014 ). Specifically, with age, urban
A Sporting Body Without Organs: Theorizing Un/Gendered Assemblages
Janeanne Marciano Levenstein
rights of transgender Iowans, particularly trans girls and women, and the effective reduction of trans public life. With the signing of these bills, Iowa enters into troublesome company with 23 other U.S. states (as of this writing), and a slew of national and international sport governing bodies that
Biodynamic Responses to Whole-Body Vibration Training: A Systematic Review
Naser Nawayseh and Saleh AlBaiti
Whole-body vibration (WBV) training machines are being used for different purposes ranging from losing body weight to increasing body strength and treating some medical conditions. They are used on both personal level at homes and professional level in medical clinics and sport gyms. However
Listening to the Body in Physical Education and Sport
Aspasia Dania and Laura Lorenz
may be operationalized or interpreted ( Carlson, 2020 ; Pascoe Leahy, 2022 ). Within the fields of physical education (PE) and sport, researchers advocate for relational forms of inquiry, to address the discursive forces of what bodies “can do” and how such a matter “acts” ( Fullagar, 2017 ) with an
Social Support and Body Image in Group Physical Activity Programs for Older Women
Michelle Patterson, Meghan H. McDonough, Jennifer Hewson, S. Nicole Culos-Reed, and Erica Bennett
Positive body image is the acceptance, appreciation, respect, and favorable opinion of one’s body in terms of appearance, functionality, unique characteristics, and capability ( Wood-Barcalow et al., 2010 ). Positive body image theory posits that appreciating and celebrating the body can lead to
Whole-Body Vibration Training Improves Heart Rate Variability and Body Fat Percentage in Obese Hispanic Postmenopausal Women
Gregory Severino, Marcos Sanchez-Gonzalez, Michelle Walters-Edwards, Michael Nordvall, Oksana Chernykh, Jason Adames, and Alexei Wong
that traditional exercise, such as aerobic and resistance training, improves HRV and body composition in several populations. However, due to perceived or actual barriers associated with traditional exercise (e.g., musculoskeletal discomfort, lack of motivation, reduced physical activity) many obese
