This article surveys the state of the field of physical culture within the discipline of history. Understood broadly as a society's interest in gymnasium and health cultures, physical culture has become a topic of increasing importance for historians, sociologists and performance scholars in the past two decades. Seen as a distinct field from sport history, works on physical culture have evolved from sporadic and one-off studies to nuanced discussions about the idealised body and its broader social message. As such, studies of physical culture have become excellent platforms for the often implicit ways in which body types have been used in discussions of race, nationalism, class, gender and medicine. Although studies of physical culture began over a century ago, the field has only recently begun to enjoy scholarly attention and, thereby, evolve.

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领域状态：体育

本文调查了历史学科内体育文化领域的状况。体育文化被广泛理解为社会对体育馆和健康文化的兴趣，在过去的二十年里，体育文化已成为历史学家、社会学家和表演学者日益重视的话题。作为与体育史不同的一个领域，体育文化作品已经从零星的一次性研究演变为对理想化身体及其更广泛的社会信息的细致入微的讨论。因此，对体育文化的研究已成为很好的平台，可以让人们在讨论种族、民族主义、阶级、性别和医学时以隐含的方式使用体型。尽管体育文化的研究始于一个多世纪前，但该领域直到最近才开始受到学术界的关注，因此，