Book Review: Body by Weimar: Athletes, Gender, and German Modernity (By Erik N. Jensen. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 2010. S. 184)

Abstract

For a long time, the history of sports has tended to limit its interest to sport's inherent structures and developments. It has failed, and often continues to fail, to analyse sport in a broader context. In the last few years, however, there have been efforts to examine the significance of sport in relation to social, cultural and political developments. Jensen ties in with these approaches, which, in the case of Weimar history, have started examining boxing, football and other competitive sports in general to explore the culture and society of Germany in the 1920s and early 1930s.