Download or read book Sport and Postmodern Times written by Genevieve Rail and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1998-09-11 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides critical insight into the questions of race, gender, sexuality, and locality in sport and society. Topics discussed include postmodern sport writing; sport and the postmodern deconstruction of gender and sexuality; virtual sport and the postmodern mediascape; discipline, normalization, rationalization, surveillance, panopticism, and other forms of power used to "invest" postmodern sporting bodies; and new perspectives on sport and physical culture, consumer culture, and postmodern geography.