Patricia Vertinsky
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3680296 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Patricia Vertinsky |
| NOMBRES | Patricia |
| APELLIDO | Vertinsky |
| FIRMA | VERTINSKY P |
| AFILIACIONES | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9253-8091 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 58 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 56 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1975 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
“That new breed of medical aide, the physiotherapist, was slightly suspect. At least they can’t do any harm was a prevalent attitude”
In exploring the early path to the professionalization of physiotherapy in the province of British Columbia from the 1920s to 1960s, the authors aim to shed light on the shaping of professional health care regulations at a formative moment in Canadian history. The return of Canadian veterans suffering from devastating war injuries following the Second World War, in addition to serious civilian outbreaks of poliomyelitis, precipitated demands for …
Training the algorithm
Research on women’s body image has often focused on the potential harms associated with engaging with health and fitness content on Instagram. Recently, scholars have turned their attention to exploring women’s agency in relation to social media to examine how particular groups of individuals participate in the curation of their online worlds in pursuit of a positive body image. In particular, we consider the experiences of specific racial groups…
The Mismeasure of Man
I first read Stephen Jay Gould's The Mismeasure of Man (1981) in the early 1980s as part of the research I was undertaking for my first book, The Eternally Wounded Woman: Doctors and Exercise in the Late Nineteenth Century (1994). Gould's book came with me to the British Library with its wonderful traditional layout—green leather chairs, expansive desks, and a system where you could call up books for the staff to collect from its inner depths and…
Using a Mixed-Methods Approach to Examine the Expanding Reach of Body Classification into the Twenty-First Century
This article uses a mixed-methods approach combining historical inquiry and quantitative science mapping techniques to examine the expanding reach of the somatotype body measurement and classification system, based on posture photography and anthropometric measurements, well into the twenty-first century. It illuminates the persistence of deterministic thinking about the relationships between physique and athletic ability in physical education an…
William Sheldon, Aldous Huxley, and the Dartington connection
When George Bernard Shaw described Dartington Hall as a ‘salon in the countryside’, he was referring to the maelstrom of ideas, conversations, and experimentation around psychology, mysticism, and spirituality within the estate's larger ethos of community living and rural reform. Disenchanted with the effects of industrialization and the ravages of the First World War, American railway heiress Dorothy Whitney Elmhirst and her second husband, Leon…
The Evolution of Hanne Wassermann’s ‘ Gymnastik Methode ’ in Vienna’s Golden Autumn
Hanne Wassermann’s contributions to teaching gymnastics and body culture during Vienna’s interwar period took place within the rich contexts of ongoing developments in radium research, psychology, physiology and anatomy, and gynecology. This paper explores the movement theories she developed for her classes as well as the ways in which she distinguished her teaching from other renowned female physical culturalists of the time. In ‘Tägliche Gymnas…
Speaking Back to Sheldon
In 1991, a reviewer of Somatotyping-Development and Applications celebrated author Barbara Honeyman-Heath as the ‘doyenne of somatotyping’, crediting her for ‘entering this embattled arena 50 years after the publication that started it all, William Sheldon's Varieties of Human Physique (1940)’. Sheldon, creator of the somatotype, had been disparaged since the late 1940s for drawing undue relationships among social deviance, temperament and physiq…
Well, You Feel More Responsible When You’re Unsupervised”
While children's independent mobility (CIM) is associated with various benefits, there is evidence of a generational decline in CIM in westernized countries; therefore, it is helpful to understand how CIM is currently negotiated between children and their parents. The purpose of this study was to examine children's and parents' perspectives and negotiations of CIM within the family unit. Face-to-face interviews and walk-along interviews were cond…
Speaking Up, Speaking Out, and Speaking Back to Feminism in Sport History
Looking through the gateway of Title IX and second-wave feminism to NASSH meetings in the mid-1980s, one could see it might take a while for gender politics to gather steam in North American sport history. Though the field rang largely with the voices of male historians and stories of men's sport, challenges were growing from feminist sport historians who were ready and able to speak up and speak out about gender relations in sport history. With …
A singularly gifted man’
‘I think our subject can light up one facet which universities in their very nature sometimes fail to see’, said A.D. ‘Dave’ Munrow in his career-long quest to make physical education a subject worthy of study at Birmingham University. This paper follows Munrow’s efforts in early post- war Britain to forge a Department of Physical Education that welcomed scientific enquiry and articulated new approaches to the training of sports skills and techni…
How about Some Muscle? Charles H. McCloy’s Contributions to Physical Education in China between 1913 and 1926
The work of American physical educator Charles H. McCloy during his stay in China between 1913 and 1926 illuminates the nexus of nationalism, modernity, and the training of the body that emerged in international reform movements. It provides an overview of his early interest and training in physical education in the United States before accepting a position with the YMCA in China. Never at a loss for words, rarely short of an opinion, McCloy’s wo…
Music and Movement, Ragas and Dances
There is a long history of collaboration within the Indian performing arts, blurring the spaces between their performance and reception. The careers of the Shankar brothers illuminate this intimacy; Ravi the sitarist and Uday the dancer represent two sides of the same coin. Both achieved success at moments of heightened Western interest in Oriental culture yet were criticized by Indian nationalists for adapting performances to suit Western tastes…
The “Y” Goes to India
Springfield College was at the forefront of the American YMCA’s early drive to train and send physical educators overseas as international secretaries to impart the YMCA’s brand of Muscular Christianity through healthy sport and exercise. When American evangelist Harry Crowe Buck arrived to direct the YMCA School of Physical Education in Madras in 1920, however, he felt compelled to address competing “systems” of physical education being exploite…
Uday Shankar and the Dartington Hall Trust
When George Bernard Shaw called Dartington Hall ‘a Salon in the Countryside’, it was a paean to its wealthy owners and their ‘utopian’ plans to establish a place of experiment and innovation in the Devonshire countryside in the 1920s. The Elmhirsts prioritised dance from the beginning, lavishing considerable resources upon its development, such that when Oriental dancer Uday Shankar was introduced to Dartington in 1934 he found willing benefactor…
Physical Culture Practices
Article, editorial letter
Requiem for the College Women’s Gymnasium
The women’s college gymnasium’s geographical, architectural and spatializing arrangements have historically been important ingredients in the social constitution of the gendered body. It has provided a critical stage on which struggles within the profession of physical education and its relation to competitive sport have been enacted both within its own boundaries and at the level of the broader campus and its shifting priorities. This paper expl…
This Dancing Business is More Hazardous Than Any ‘He-Man’ Sport”
Selecting Springfield College, founding home of the International YMCA as a training ground for male dancers was an inspired choice by American modern dancer Ted Shawn given the founding credo of the College to ‘build builders of men.’ I would like to see men dancing in gymnasiums and stadiums, he claimed, so that the dance could reach again the position it held among the Greeks as the most perfect athletic accomplishment and the finest means of …
Watch Britain”
The notion that exercise is medicine dominated Canadian physical education in its nineteenth-century inception and continued to circulate through fitness discourses despite the introduction of movement education in the mid-twentieth century, which offered more progressive methods of child-centered teaching. Canada’s approach to physical education in the postwar decades was affected by important transatlantic influences, not only in matters of nat…
Is This the Road All Runners Run
In this tribute to Allen Guttmann’s long and venerable career as a sport historian and literary critic, I borrow from his insightful and poignant analysis of long-distance runners in an analysis of poems and novels to examine the scholarly roads he has run and those races in which he has both joined and parted from his colleagues. I examine his determination to follow a modernization framework in his historical work and comment on his distaste fo…
Physical Education’s First Lady of the World’
Dorothy Sears Ainsworth has received wide acclaim for her pioneering efforts in international relations that enhanced collaboration among female physical educators in the decades following World War II. As Director of Physical Education for Women at Smith College (1926–1960), Ainsworth became a global figure, traveling extensively and organizing the first international conference on physical education for women and girls in Copenhagen in 1949. Th…
Reconsidering the Female Tradition in English Physical Education
Histories of the female tradition in physical education in England tend to celebrate the unique early twentieth-century achievements of dedicated women successfully creating their own profession to train the female body in healthful gymnastics and games through the establishment of specialist training colleges. Yet, the female tradition has also been painted as a ‘time-limited achievement’ where female physical educators erroneously tied their fo…
Balance and biomedicine
In this article, we contribute to a growing body of literature that explores how risk discourse functions in the (globalised) neoliberal era of ‘intensive mothering’. A comparison of traditional Chinese medicine and Western biomedicine indicates that in these two approaches to medicine, pregnancy-related risks are derived from different sources and seen in different ways. In this article, we examine how women with a Chinese background living in N…
Perfect Bodies
Sport and the Emancipation of European Women
Gigliola Gori and J.A. Mangan are to be congratulated for organising this interesting collection of historical and sociological European perspectives on sport and gender. As they point out, the ess
Extreme science
The social construction of the gendered body
(1994). The social construction of the gendered body: exercise and the exercise of power. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 147-171
Representing the Female Pugilist
Clint Eastwood’s Million Dollar Baby won five Academy Awards but also came under attack from female boxers and disability activists. Ostensibly a drama about a tenacious woman’s quest to become a professional fighter and the male coach who assists her, Million Dollar Baby appears to insert a radical portrayal of femininity, female athleticism, and power into the male-dominated genre of boxing films and, more generally, a media that has been large…
The Gendering of Physical Education in Hong Kong
How gender operates is a key factor in the ways in which physical education is organized, taught and experienced by students and teachers. This essay highlights the gendered contours of the history of physical education development in Hong Kong, its Chinese heritage and its colonial foundations – the persistent influence of British approaches to physical education teacher education and the promotion of sport. The paper is a collaborative work bet…
Building the Body Beautiful’ in The Women's League of Health and Beauty
Techniques of the body, claimed Marcel Mauss in 1935, were the vehicle societies employed to express their values. Arguing that politics goes nowhere without movement, this paper explores the visibility of movement aesthetics in Britain during the 1930s through the activities of the League of Health and Beauty and its mother–daughter leaders, Mary Bagot Stack and Prunella Stack. It argues that Mary Bagot Stack's introduction of yoga to the League…
From Physical Educators to Mothers of the Dance
Margaret H'Doubler and Martha Hill were American physical educators who played pioneering roles in the debate over the place of modern dance in higher education. In establishing the first university degree programme in dance education in the women's physical education department at the University of Wisconsin in 1927, H'Doubler has been credited with challenging the way Americans thought not only about dance and female physicality but also higher…
Making Chinese-Canadian masculinities in Vancouver's physical education curriculum
Our paper illustrates how males of Chinese descent in British Columbia (BC) have historically been victims of overt and subtle forms of discrimination, and describes how racism is and was integrally linked to notions of class, gender and the body. Highlighted in our historical overview are issues around race and masculinity for Chinese males as they existed (and still exist) in the BC educational system, especially in sport-related and physical e…
Physical Education’s First Lady of the World’
Dorothy Sears Ainsworth has received wide acclaim for her pioneering efforts in international relations that enhanced collaboration among female physical educators in the decades following World War II. As Director of Physical Education for Women at Smith College (1926–1960), Ainsworth became a global figure, traveling extensively and organizing the first international conference on physical education for women and girls in Copenhagen in 1949. Th…
Yoga Comes to American Physical Education
Around the turn-of-the-twentieth-century yoga took on an American mantle, developing into India’s first “global brand” of physical culture. Physical educators became implicated in this transnational exchange adopting aspects of yoga into their programs and activities, though there has been an insufficient attempt to piece together the sum and pattern of their intersecting influences. This paper explores how adopted Eastern cultural practices such…
Physique as Destiny
When Ron Rosenbaum unveiled his explosive journalistic report on the "Great Ivy League Nude Posture Photo Scandal" in 1995 it was a story that revealed the uneven evolution of attitudes toward body, race, and gender in the last half century. His intention was to highlight how easily ideas about the body have been taken up by scientists and sustained in elite institutions of higher education well beyond the bounds of common sense. The villain of h…
How about Some Muscle? Charles H. McCloy’s Contributions to Physical Education in China between 1913 and 1926
The work of American physical educator Charles H. McCloy during his stay in China between 1913 and 1926 illuminates the nexus of nationalism, modernity, and the training of the body that emerged in international reform movements. It provides an overview of his early interest and training in physical education in the United States before accepting a position with the YMCA in China. Never at a loss for words, rarely short of an opinion, McCloy’s wo…
Physical Culture Practices
Article, editorial letter
Reconsidering the Female Tradition in English Physical Education
Histories of the female tradition in physical education in England tend to celebrate the unique early twentieth-century achievements of dedicated women successfully creating their own profession to train the female body in healthful gymnastics and games through the establishment of specialist training colleges. Yet, the female tradition has also been painted as a ‘time-limited achievement’ where female physical educators erroneously tied their fo…
Transatlantic Traffic in Expressive Movement
This paper examines the impact of the ideas of Delsarte and Dalcroze on forms of expressive movement in dance and gymnastics which developed around the turn of the twentieth century. It shows how they were taken up, influenced and furthered by specific innovators, affecting physical education philosophy and practice on both sides of the Atlantic. Both Margaret H'Doubler and Rudolf von Laban were instrumental – in different though interconnected w…
Epilogue
Can physical education become the renaissance field of the twenty first century, or is it just an impossible dream of one of the world's leading sport historians? This article illuminates, celebrates and contextualizes the remarkable range and depth of Roberta J. Park's intellectual contributions to sport history and physical education in North America and internationally. Her extensive career at the University of California, Berkeley as student,…
A Militant Madonna
Clinical Styles and Motivation
The study reported in this paper examines clinical reasoning styles with a focus on laboratory utilization. A stratified sample of 80 physicians participated in the solution of a simulated patient management problem. The analysis focuses on variation in the portfolio of laboratory tests ordered as a function of practice setting (e,g., physicians in practice versus physicians in training). The study also examines the response of physicians to the …
Some Sociobehavioral and Other Determinants of Compliance
Various aspects of compliance behavior were investigated in connection with a genetic screening clinic designed to rest for the Tay-Sachs gene in a specified target population. Selected antecedents of compliance were combined into an integrativeframework based on data obtainedfrom 392 members of the Jewish community in Vancouver, Canada. Drawing on and extending several "health belief models" proposed in the literature, it was hypothesized that c…
Toxic chemical regulation in Canada
This paper makes an assessment of the impact of toxic chemical regulation in Canada. Ranges of costs and benefits, supplemented by survey information, analogous American data, interviews and case studies have been used to demonstrate the general usefulness of a cost‐benefit framework for public sector decision‐making even where information availability is constrained and complete analysis is not feasible. It is concluded that, with few exceptions…
Profiles of Physical Education Strategies
This study was designed to compare strategic teaching preferences of physical educators in two national settings, and to assess the impact of selected teacher characteristics and teaching situations upon these preference profiles. A field study employing a structured questionnaire was administered to two samples of physical education teachers, one from Canada ( n=178) and the other from England ( n =53). Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA)…
The Evolving Policy of Equal Curricular Opportunity in England
The evolving policy of equal curricular opportunity in England
Japan's Energy Strategy at the Crossroads
HE WORLD OF ENERGY POLICY is characterized by sharp discontinuil ties and high stakes. Responses to energy supply uncertainties and the quest for energy security vary among nations, reflecting the different decision-making systems, resource profiles, and the values and perceptions of the future which are dominant in a country at a particular time. Indeed, the energy strategies of Japan reflect its unique social decisionmaking system and position …
God, Science and the Market Place
Escape from freedom
Elderly Women, Exercise and Healthy Aging
The persistent view of old age as a time for accepting an inevitable decline in health and vigour continues to shape the exercise patterns of elderly women, despite rapidly accumulating evidence that what has formerly been perceived as "normal aging" is, in part, the deficit of disuse and inactivity. While the risks associated with increased physical activity are not to be overlooked, more attention is being given to the overwhelming benefits of …
Women’s Sports
Sport and exercise for old women
(1992). Sport and exercise for old women: images of the elderly in the medical and popular literature at the turn of the century. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 83-104
Shattered Nerves
The social construction of the gendered body
(1994). The social construction of the gendered body: exercise and the exercise of power. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 147-171
Identity and Intolerance
In a world of increasingly heterogeneous societies, matters of identity politics and the links between collective identities and national, racial, or ethnic intolerance have assumed dramatic significance - and have stimulated an enormous body of research and literature which rarely transcends the limitations of a national perspective, however, and thus reproduces the limitations of its own topic. Comparative attempts are rare, if not altogether a…
Making and marking gender
A Militant Madonna
Sites of Sport
The study of built environments such as gymnasiums, football stadiums, swimmimg pools and skating rinks provides unique information about the historical enclosure of the gendered and sexualised body, the body's capabilities, needs and desires. It illuminates the tensions between the globalising tendencies of sport and the importance of local culture and a sense of place. This collection uses spatial concepts and examples to examine the nature and…
The Gendering of Physical Education in Hong Kong
How gender operates is a key factor in the ways in which physical education is organized, taught and experienced by students and teachers. This essay highlights the gendered contours of the history of physical education development in Hong Kong, its Chinese heritage and its colonial foundations – the persistent influence of British approaches to physical education teacher education and the promotion of sport. The paper is a collaborative work bet…
Dancing class’
Dance education has not played a significant role in Hong Kong schools. Teacher education may be at a crossroads in determining its future directions in relation to dance as art rather than physical activity. Taking Marcel Mauss's characterizations of the techniques of the body as the ways in which, from society to society, people learn how to use their bodies, this paper looks back at the context in which forms of dance education were introduced…
Representing the Female Pugilist
Clint Eastwood’s Million Dollar Baby won five Academy Awards but also came under attack from female boxers and disability activists. Ostensibly a drama about a tenacious woman’s quest to become a professional fighter and the male coach who assists her, Million Dollar Baby appears to insert a radical portrayal of femininity, female athleticism, and power into the male-dominated genre of boxing films and, more generally, a media that has been large…
Géométries du pouvoir dans les espaces et les lieux sportifs
Cet article explore la signification de l'espace comme un « lieu pratiqué » selon la notion reprise à Michel de Certeau, en examinant la construction d'un gymnase et ses effets sur les relations sociales et les réseaux disciplinaires. Tout comme le laboratoire ou le théâtre, le gymnase a été spécifiquement pensé pour permettre certaines actions et en témoigner, en reflétant des conceptions de l'entraînement et de l'éducation corporelle. Ses diver…
Epilogue
Can physical education become the renaissance field of the twenty first century, or is it just an impossible dream of one of the world's leading sport historians? This article illuminates, celebrates and contextualizes the remarkable range and depth of Roberta J. Park's intellectual contributions to sport history and physical education in North America and internationally. Her extensive career at the University of California, Berkeley as student,…
Physique as Destiny
When Ron Rosenbaum unveiled his explosive journalistic report on the "Great Ivy League Nude Posture Photo Scandal" in 1995 it was a story that revealed the uneven evolution of attitudes toward body, race, and gender in the last half century. His intention was to highlight how easily ideas about the body have been taken up by scientists and sustained in elite institutions of higher education well beyond the bounds of common sense. The villain of h…
Making Chinese-Canadian masculinities in Vancouver's physical education curriculum
Our paper illustrates how males of Chinese descent in British Columbia (BC) have historically been victims of overt and subtle forms of discrimination, and describes how racism is and was integrally linked to notions of class, gender and the body. Highlighted in our historical overview are issues around race and masculinity for Chinese males as they existed (and still exist) in the BC educational system, especially in sport-related and physical e…
Sociology (38 obras) · Political science (32 obras) · Sports, Gender, and Society (27 obras) · Gender Studies (25 obras) · Gender Studies (23 obras) · Law (21 obras) · Pedagogy (20 obras) · Art (19 obras) · Law (18 obras) · Physical education (18 obras)