Review of Performance Anxiety: Sport and Work in Germany from the Empire to Nazism by Michael Hau

Abstract

Hau makes an important contribution to this literature in his examination of sports as a means to achieve biopolitical ends. Like the work of Corinna Treitel, Geoff Eley, and Ed-ward Ross Dickinson, Hau’s project encourages us to broaden our understanding of the diverse ways that biopolitical goals could be pursued, including housing policies, maternal care, early childhood education, personal hygiene, nutrition guidelines, welfare services, public health campaigns, health insurance regulations, tax policies, hospital administration, or medical guidelines