TY - JOUR 
A1 - Sánchez García, Raúl
AU - Rivero Herráiz, Antonio
T1 - ‘Governmentality’in the origins of European female PE and sport: the Spanish case study (1883–1936)
Y1 - 2013
SN - 13573322
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11268/1104
AB - 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 <I>Regeneracionistas</I> (‘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.
KW - Deporte
KW - Sociología histórica
KW - Investigación social
LA - eng
ER -