Plasticity in Motion: Sport, Gender, and Biopolitics

Plasticity in Motion explores how sport can create bodies with athletic abilities, but transformation is not always positive or infinite. It integrates the feminine into hypermasculine discussions of sport, opening up new possibilities for transformations in how we play, watch, and think about sports.

Format: Hardback
Length: 220 pages
Publication date: 15 August 2023
Publisher: Lexington Books

Plasticity in Motion: Sport, Gender, and Biopolitics explores the profound impact of sport on the human body, emphasizing its ability to shape and transform individuals into athletes capable of achieving remarkable performances that captivate modern sports audiences. Robert M. Foschia draws extensively from the influential work of Catherine Malabou, renowned for her exploration of plasticity—the capacity to shape and transform—and argues that transformation in sport is not always positive or limitless, as it carries the potential for accidents, injuries, and excommunications.

However, sport as a discursive space often disregards these negative transformations, portraying itself as pure potential and often excluding the feminine. What happens when the feminine enters this realm? Foschia intentionally integrates the feminine back into hypermasculine discussions of sport, unlocking a new realm of possibilities for transformations in the ways we engage with sports, watch them, and think about them. This book holds significant value for scholars in communication, media studies, gender studies, rhetoric, and sports, as it offers insightful perspectives and contributes to the ongoing discourse on the intersection of sport, gender, and biopolitics.

Weight: 484g
Dimension: 158 x 237 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781793639585