Overview
- Relates corporeal experiences and achievements to the socio-cultural context
- Assesses the ways in which assumptions about health, gender and the body are embedded in extreme-sport practices
- Contributes to a new understanding of three key extreme sports: mixed marital arts (MMA), ironman triathlon and bodybuilding
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Through their ethnographic analysis, Andreasson and Johansson present a unique and updated account of the increasing phenomenon of extreme sports and extreme bodies in contemporary Western society, grounded in the sociology of sport, body studies and embodiment literature.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Introducing Extreme Sporting Bodies
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Bodybuilding and the Fitness Revolution
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Bending Bodies Through Ironman Triathlon
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Mixed Martial Arts and Spectacular Bodies
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Theorising Extreme Bodies
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Jesper Andreasson is Associate Professor of Sport Science at Linnaeus University, Sweden, researching predominantly in the fields of gender studies, the sociology of sport and gym/fitness culture.
Thomas Johansson is Professor of Child and Youth Studies at Gothenburg University, Sweden, and is one of the key researchers in the field of men and masculinities in the Nordic countries.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Extreme Sports, Extreme Bodies
Book Subtitle: Gender, Identities and Bodies in Motion
Authors: Jesper Andreasson, Thomas Johansson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97238-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-97237-4Published: 06 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07322-0Published: 19 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-97238-1Published: 25 August 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 248
Number of Illustrations: 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Culture and Gender, Gender Studies