Power, Body and Gender: A Study on the Activities of Chinese Modern Women's School Physical Education

The physical education activities started to be valued as a critical technique to transform women's bodies and thrived in schools in modern times.From Foucault's disciplinary perspective, this study takes modern school female bodies as research objects, and examines the female physical education activities in schools with the deduction of disciplinary powers in modern China.It discovers that female physical education activities in schools have strengthened government's control of women's bodies, promoted their own development and the reconstruction of gender space in school physical education, and changed the marginalized state of women's physical education development.Nonetheless, there also existed the dilemma of the alienation of women's bodies, which dissolved, to some extent, the real goal and purpose of female physical education activities in schools.