Devenir sociohistorienne de l’éducation physique et du sport : la fabrique du goût pour le biographique et les inégalités sexuées

Abstract

This ego-history of a social historian of physical education and sport proposes to return to the creation and origin of a taste for biography: family socialization structured by the marriage of a double opposition (between art and sport; between letters and sciences) and governed by a central educational principle: “movement to stretch.” Then it traces the influence of university socialization on the development of an intellectual sensitivity that gradually focuses on gender inequalities in the field of physical education and sport, with a focus that gradually shifts toward strategies deployed by women whose power to act in male territory is constrained.