Preface 1. Sexuality and the historian 2. 'That damned morality': sex in Victorian ideology 3. The sacramental family: middle-class men, women and children 4. Sexuality and the labouring classes 5. The public and the private: moral regulation in the Victorian period 6. The construction of homosexuality 7. The population question in the early twentieth century 8. The theorisation of sex 9. Feminism and socialism 10. Sex psychology and birth control 11. Towards a conservative modernity 12. The state and sexuality 13. The permissive moment 14. Personal politics and moral conservatism 15. A new world? Index

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Sex, Politics and Society. The Regulation of Sexuality since 1800

Athleticism in the Victorian and Edwardian Public School: The Emergence and Consolidation of an Educational Ideology

(The place of publication is London and the date 2007 unless otherwise stated.)

List of publications on the economic and social history of Great Britain and Ireland published in 2007

This article explicates the inconvenient truth that is at the core of the crisis currently facing the field of kinesiology. Namely, the instantiation of an epistemological hierarchy that privileges positivist over postpositivist, quantitative over qualitative, and predictive over interpretive ways of knowing. The discussion outlines the political, economic, and cultural forces responsible for kinesiology's putative scientific hegemony and speaks to its corollary: the very demise of the field caused by intensified subdisciplinary specialization and fragmentation and fundamental lack of comprehensiveness. The article outlines a potential corrective to kinesiology's blinkered epistemological and empirical vision, currently being developed at the University of Maryland. Physical Cultural Studies (PCS) is introduced as a synthesis of empirical, theoretical, and methodological influences (drawn from, among other sources, the sociology and history of sport and physical activity, the sociology of the body, and cu...

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Kinesiology's Inconvenient Truth and the Physical Cultural Studies Imperative

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'Helping People Help Themselves': Democracy, Development, and the Global Politics of Poverty in Canada, 1964-1979

questioned; the problem is always women, not science. But is it really? The authors based their analysis on interviews with forty adult British women. As the number indicates, the interviews were not intended to be quantitative nor generalizable. The strength of their research is in their careful reading of the collected words and attentively made bridges between them and other empirical studies and theories. Maintaining easy accessibility, the book successfully invokes questions on such broad issues as adult education, women and science education, and feminist epistemology. Both books examine the relationship between women and science by revealing the problems of science (and not women). In the attempts to be inclusive to women, ironically I felt excluded. I could not locate myself in either of the arguments as a woman who enjoys science and appreciates womanhood. Although both books ask good questions about women's relationship to science, a better question to begin might be whether there is a relationship between women and science. Too much emphasis on women's collective experience could paradoxically exclude some women. Relationships between women and science may be more diverse, dynamic, and intertwined than these books indicate.

The Trouble with Normal: Postwar Youth and the Making of Heterosexuality

Acknowledgments * Introduction * Tough guys? Figure skating's macho moment * Girls' sport * Manliness and grace: Skating as a gentleman's art * Women start skating, skaters form clubs, their art becomes sport *"They left the men nowhere": The feminization of skating * Artistic sport or athletic art? Class and gender and shifting definitions of skating * Sequins, soundtracks and spirals: Producing gender difference on the ice Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

Artistic Impressions: Figure Skating, Masculinity, and the Limits of Sport

For much of the 20th century, dance writers and critics regularly bemoaned a shortage of male dancers. As one writer put it, the average American father would rather see his son dead than performing on stage in tights. This article looks at commentary about male dancing as a means of understanding popular conceptions of effeminacy. It addresses the way discourses about sport, physical prowess and hard bodies have been appropriated in attempts to validate the manliness of male dancers. Drawing on works by dance educators, critics and dancers, such as Gene Kelly and American modern dancer Ted Shawn, the article looks at gendered notions of the body and movement and the way these have been shaped by the late 19th-century conflation of effeminacy and homosexuality. The athleticism and muscularity of male dancers were to have brought them mainstream respect; that they have yet to do so at all but elite levels reminds us that even the hardest bodies must be read through the limitations of the discursive context...

‘Death to the Prancing Prince’: Effeminacy, Sport Discourses and the Salvation of Men's Dancing:

This collection of commentaries emerged from ongoing conversations among the contributors about our varied understandings of and desires for the sport studies field. One of our initial concerns was with the absence/presence of feminist thought within sport studies. Despite a rich history of feminist scholarship in sport studies, we have questioned the extent to which feminism is currently being engaged or acknowledged as having shaped the field. Our concerns crystallized during the spirited feminist responses to a fiery roundtable debate on Physical Cultural Studies (PCS) at the annual conference of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) in New Orleans in November 2012. At that session, one audience member after another spoke to what they saw as the unacknowledged appropriation by PCS proponents of longstanding feminist—and feminist cultural studies—approaches to scholarship and writing. These critiques focused not just on the intellectual moves that PCS scholars claim to be making ...

Mary Louise Adams

Papers

The Trouble with Normal: Postwar Youth and the Making of Heterosexuality

Artistic Impressions: Figure Skating, Masculinity, and the Limits of Sport

‘Death to the Prancing Prince’: Effeminacy, Sport Discourses and the Salvation of Men's Dancing:

The Trouble with Normal: Postwar Youth and the Making of Heterosexuality

Feminist Cultural Studies: Uncertainties and Possibilities