Epilogue: Roberta J. Park and the 'impossible dream': keeping it together for physical education and the academy
Titel:
Epilogue: Roberta J. Park and the 'impossible dream': keeping it together for physical education and the academy
Auteur:
Vertinsky, Patricia
Verschenen in:
The international journal of the history of sport
Paginering:
Jaargang 24 (2007) nr. 12 pagina's 1724-1753
Jaar:
2007-12
Inhoud:
Can physical education become the renaissance field of the twenty first century, or is it just an impossible dream of one of the world's leading sport historians? This article illuminates, celebrates and contextualizes the remarkable range and depth of Roberta J. Park's intellectual contributions to sport history and physical education in North America and internationally. Her extensive career at the University of California, Berkeley as student, teacher, colleague, administrator and researcher is a powerful example of one woman's agency, determination and success in the hierarchical world of higher education with its ambiguous and shifting attachment to the profession and discipline of physical education and sport science. Systematically opening up the breadth of embodied and gendered practices deemed suitable for examination by sport historians, Park has helped turn a narrow lane into the broad and busy highway sport history has now become. Like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 'Queenmother' of first wave feminists, she has equated the gymnasium with the meeting house and shown an abiding respect for saints with strong bodies.
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