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n° 41 2007/1


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Le corps sportif : un capital rentable pour tous ?

Catherine Louveau
Résumé de l'article
Sport makes it possible to (re)invest certain forms of capital which have been forged in and through professional work. Certain men thus manage to transfer their labour potential and their « pain threshold» to boxing or to rugby, while others invest their cultural capital in sports which involve forms of scientific knowledge. Bodies are not however gender-neutral. Men and women are thus set apart in the work of sport, both in its practice and in its normative representation. « Femininity » has the prerogative of grace and beauty, in gymnastics or in skating, while masculinity and virility are signified in terms of broad shoulders, courage, the willingness to fight on. The cult of the body, which has remained in vogue since the 1980s, has to some extent blurred the boundaries between the sexes. Muscles have thus become emblematic of an all-purpose fitness. Despite this, the indifference of the media to numerous leading women athletes, along with the suspicions hanging over them of a blurred gender identity demonstrate that the muscular woman has failed to become an ideal of feminine beauty. While there are many different spaces within which fit bodies can be made profitable, those of women cyclists and football players, who stir up a certain gender trouble, do not occupy such spaces.
Plan de l'article
• CORPS INSTRUMENT ET CORPS EN FORME
• ILS SERONT FORTS, ELLES SERONT BELLES
• UNE IMPÉRATIVE MISE EN FORME(S) DES CORPS
• LA FEMME MUSCLÉE COMME IDÉAL DE BEAUTÉ FÉMININE ?


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