Extreme Sports, Extreme Bodies Gender, Identities and Bodies in Motion
This book investigates extreme sports, defined as sports in which athletes challenge and transgress societal perceptions of what is humanly possible to achieve, in terms of physical training and bodily development/performance. Situated within a growing body of literature analysing the impact of new...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2019, 2019
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2019 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Part I: Introducing Extreme Sporting Bodies
- Chapter One: Introduction
- Chapter Two: Body Studies and Carnal Sociology
- Part II: Bodybuilding and the Fitness Revolution
- Chapter Three: Getting the Pump – Pain and Pleasure in Muscle-building Practice
- Chapter Four: Negotiating the Subcultural body
- Chapter Five: Bodybuilding - Concluding Thoughts. - Part III: Bending Bodies Through Ironman Triathlon
- Chapter Six: Discipline, Transcendence and Bodily Fluids
- Chapter Seven: The Family Puzzle in Ironman Triathlon. - Chapter Eight: Ironman - Concluding Thoughts. Part IV: Mixed Martial Arts and Spectacular Bodies
- Chapter Nine: Fists, Blood and Emotions
- Chapter Ten: (Re)Negotiating Violence. - Chapter Eleven: MMA - Concluding Thoughts
- Part V: Theorising Extreme Bodies
- Chapter Twelve: Bodies in Theory and Practice
- Appendix: Research Design and Methodology