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Author Shogan, Debra A., 1951-

Title The making of high-performance athletes : discipline, diversity, and ethics / Debra Shogan
Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [1999]
©1999

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Description xii, 133 pages ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Introduction. Constraints as Power: The Example of Rules of Sport. Disciplinary Power. Bodies of Knowledge: Power-Knowledge. Docile Bodies and Dupes. Bodies of Knowledge: Athletic and Other Identities. Sport Ethics: Conformity and Questioning -- 2. Production of 'The Athlete': Disciplinary Technologies of Sport. Individuation of Space: 'The Art of Distributions'. Embodied Time: 'Control of Activity'. Routinization and Embodiment of Exercise: 'The Organization of Geneses'. Synchronization of Team Play: 'The Composition of Forces'. Correct Training. The Coach in the Athlete: Panopticism. Sport Discipline and Knowing-Known Bodies. Confessional Technology -- 3. Hybrid Athletes. Discourses and Technologies of Gender. Discourses and Technologies of Sexuality. Sport Discipline and the Production of Gender and Sexuality. Discourses and Technologies of Race. Sport Discipline and the Production of Race. Normalization and Athletes with Disabilities
4. Ethical Issues and the Scholarly Field of Sport Ethics. Ethical Issues as Effects of Sport Discipline. The Imperative of Teamwork. Coach-Athlete Relationships. Sport Ethics -- 5. Hybrid Athletes and Discipline: Possibilities for a New Sport Ethics. Foucault's Ethics. Implications for Sport Ethics
Summary Highly skilled athletes are produced by technologies of training that seek to create the athlete as a singular identity. Yet the disciplinary model of modern sport is consistently disrupted by the diversity and hybridity of the participants. Using Foucault's work on disciplinary power as a theoretical framework, Debra Shogan examines the effects of technologies of training and the ethical issues that emerge when demands to improve performance involve athletes, coaches, administrators, and sports scientists in decisions about how far to push the limits of performance. Making the case for a new, postmodern sports ethic, Shogan shows how the juxtaposition of hybrid athletes with the homogenizing technologies of sport discipline opens up spaces for questioning, refusing, and perhaps creating new ways of participating in sport
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [119]-129) and index
Subject Sports -- Psychological aspects.
Sports -- Social aspects.
Sports -- Moral and ethical aspects.
LC no. 99189646
ISBN 080204395X hardback alkaline paper
0802082017 paperback alkaline paper