Written against the backdrop of the 2012 London Olympics, this book examines the idea of 'time' in sport, using time as a conceptual lens to explore movement, bodies, sports reporting, memory, disability, technology and the role of the past and the future in sport.

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Open University, UK

Kath Woodward

About the author

Kath Woodward is Professor of Sociology and Head of Department in the Sociology Department at the Open University, UK. Her interests bring together feminist theory, gender studies and sport. She is author of Boxing, Masculinity and Identity, Social Sciences: The Big Issues, Why Feminism Matters, Embodied Sporting Practices, and Sex, Power and the Games.

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Book Title: Sporting Times
Authors: Kath Woodward
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the Olympic and Paralympic Games
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137275363
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-27535-6Published: 30 October 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-27536-3Published: 12 January 2016
Series ISSN: 2947-5783
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5791
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 104
Topics: Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Gender Studies, Sociology of the Body, Popular Science in Sports, Cultural Studies, Sociology, general

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

Out of the Blocks: Starting Times

Time and Motion: Methodologies and Methods

Memories

Measuring Time

Future Time

Changing Times and Changing Time

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