This volume comprises some of the finest contributions by the distinguished Berkeley scholar, Professor Roberta J. Park, to Sports Studies, Sports Sciences and Physical Education. It is an invaluable source of her seminal writings available nowhere else.

Prologue: Roberta J. Park, Polymathic and Polymorphic Pioneer: A Personal Appreciation J.A. Mangan ‘Embodied Selves’: The Rise and Development of Concern for Physical Education, Active Games and Recreation for American Women, 1776–1865Biological Thought, Athletics and the Formation of a ‘Man of Character’: 1830–1900Sport, Gender and Society in a Transatlantic Victorian PerspectiveMuscles, Symmetry and Action: ‘Do You Measure Up?’ Defining Masculinity in Britain and America from the 1860s to the Early 1900sPhysiologists, Physicians, and Physical Educators: Nineteenth Century Biology and Exercise, Hygienic and EducativeScience, Service, and the Professionalization of Physical Education: 1885–1905‘Cells or Soaring?’: Historical Reflections on ‘Visions’ of Body, Athletics, and Modern OlympismRoberta J. Park and the ‘Impossible Dream’: Keeping it Together for Physical Education and the Academy Patricia Vertinsky List of Roberta J. Park’s Publications