The Technologies of the Self

Sport, Feminism, and Foucault

Bibliographic Data

ID5798660
AuthorsP Markula (0000-0002-0526-756X, University of Exeter, corresponding author)
Year2003
Volume20
Issue2
Pages87-107
Publication date2003-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociology of Sport Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0741-1235 • E-ISSN: 1543-2785
PublisherHuman Kinetics (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1123/ssj.20.2.87
OpenAlexW2182705459
LanguageEN
Citations received136
References cited21

Following Michel Foucault, feminist sport scholars have demonstrated how women's physical activity can act as a technology of domination that anchors women into a discoursive web of normalizing practices. There has been less emphasis on Foucault's later work that focuses on the individual's role of changing the practices of domination. Foucault argues that human beings turn themselves into subjects through what he labels "the technologies of the self." While his work is not gender specific, some feminists have seen the technologies of the self as a possibility to reconceptualize the self, agency and resistance in feminist theory and politics. In this paper, I aim to examine what Foucault's technologies of self can offer feminists in sport studies. I begin by reviewing applications of Foucault's technology of the self to analyses of women's physical activity. I will next locate the technologies of the self within Foucault's theory of power, self and ethics to further reflect how valuable this concept can be for feminist sport studies

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