Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body : Rutgers University Press : 9780813591810 : 0813591813 : 17 Jan 2020 : 2020 Choice? Outstanding Academic Title The moving body?pervasively occupied by fitness activities, intense training and dieting regimes, recreational practices, and high-profile sporting mega-events?holds a vital function in contemporary society. As the body moves?as it performs, sweats, runs, and jumps?it sets in motion an intricate web of scientific rationalities, spatial arrangements, corporate imperatives, and identity politics (i.e. politics of gender, race, social class, etc.). It represents vitality in its productive and physiological capacities, it drives a complex economy of experiences and products, and it is a meaningful site of cultural identities and politics.   Contributors to Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body work from a simple premise: as it moves, the material body matters. Adding to the burgeoning fields of sport studies and body studies, t