A Genealogy Of Male Bodybuilding
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A Genealogy Of Male Bodybuilding
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Author : Dimitris Liokaftos
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-02-03
A Genealogy Of Male Bodybuilding written by Dimitris Liokaftos and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-03 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Bodybuilding has become an increasingly dominant part of popular gym culture within the last century. Developing muscles is now seen as essential for both general health and high performance sport. At the more extreme end, the monstrous built body has become a pop icon that continues to provoke fascination. This original and engaging study explores the development of male bodybuilding culture from the nineteenth century to the present day, tracing its transformations and offering a new perspective on its current extreme direction. Drawing on archival research, interviews, participant observation, and discourse analysis, this book presents a critical mapping of bodybuilding’s trajectory. Following this trajectory through the wider sociocultural changes it has been a part of, a unique combination of historical and empirical data is used to investigate the aesthetics of bodybuilding and the shifting notions of the good body and human nature they reflect. This book will be fascinating reading for all those interested in the history and culture of bodybuilding, as well as for students and researchers of the sociology of sport, gender and the body.
Muscle Works
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Author : Broderick D.V. Chow
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 2024-07-15
Muscle Works written by Broderick D.V. Chow and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-15 with Performing Arts categories.
Men’s fitness as a performance—from nineteenth-century theatrical exhibitions to health and wellness practices today This book recounts the story of fitness culture from its beginnings as spectacles of strongmen, weightlifters, acrobats, and wrestlers to its legitimization in the twentieth-century in the form of competitive sports and health and wellness practices. Broderick D. V. Chow shows how these modes of display contribute to the construction and deconstruction of definitions of masculinity. Attending to its theatrical origins, Chow argues for a more nuanced understanding of fitness culture, one informed by the legacies of self-described Strongest Man in the World Eugen Sandow and the history of fakery in strongman performance; the philosophy of weightlifter George Hackenschmidt and the performances of martial artist Bruce Lee; and the intersections of fatigue, resistance training, and whiteness. Muscle Works: Physical Culture and the Performance of Masculinity moves beyond the gym and across the archive, working out techniques, poses, and performances to consider how, as gendered subjects, we inhabit and make worlds through our bodies.
Fitness Doping
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Author : Jesper Andreasson
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-06-25
Fitness Doping written by Jesper Andreasson and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-25 with Sports & Recreation categories.
This book compiles several years of multi-faceted qualitative research on fitness doping to provide a fresh insight into how the growing phenomenon intersects with issues of gender, body and health in contemporary society. Drawing on biographical interviews, as well as online and offline ethnography, Andreasson and Johansson analyse how, in the context of the global development of gym and fitness culture, particular doping trajectories are formulated, and users come into contact with doping. They also explore users’ internalisation of particular values, practices and communications and analyse how this influences understandings of the self, health, gender and the body, as well as tying this into wider beliefs regarding individual freedom and the law. This insight into doping goes beyond elite and organised sports, and will be of interest to students and scholars across the sociology of sport, leisure studies, and gender and body politics.
Gym Culture Identity And Performance Enhancing Drugs
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Author : Ask Vest Christiansen
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-05-27
Gym Culture Identity And Performance Enhancing Drugs written by Ask Vest Christiansen and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-27 with Sports & Recreation categories.
This book is about gym culture, the pursuit of fit, muscular bodies and the use of drugs as a means to get there. Building on the international research literature and in-depth interviews with men who have experience of image and performance enhancing drugs (IPEDs), the book explores the fascination with muscles, motivations for using drugs to enhance them, assessments of risks, and experience of side effects. The book examines what the altered body does to the men’s identity, self-image and relationships with peers and partners. Taking an evolutionary psychological approach, it also investigates the biological and psychological foundations of the fascination with the muscular body and discusses the notion of precarious manhood. Building on these analyses the book considers the political and regulatory initiatives in place to prevent the use of IPEDs and assesses those strategies’ potential to reach their aims. This is essential reading for anybody with an interest in the issue of drugs in sport, the ethics of sport, sociology of sport, sociology of the body, masculinity or public health.
Gym Bodies
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Author : James Brighton
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-10-16
Gym Bodies written by James Brighton and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-16 with Social Science categories.
Drawing on empirical research, this fascinating new book explores the embodied experiences of ‘gym goers’ and the fitness cultures that are constructed within gyms and fitness spaces. Gym Bodies offers a personal, interactive, ethnographic account of the multiplicity of contemporary gym practices, spaces and cultures, including bodybuilding, CrossFit and Spinning. It argues that gym bodies are historically constructed, social, sensual, emotional and political; that experience intersects with multiple embodied identities; and that fitness cultures are profoundly important in shaping the body in wider contemporary culture. This is important reading for students, tutors and researchers working in sport and exercise studies, sociology of the body, health studies, leisure, cultural studies, gender and education. It is also a valuable resource for policy makers and practitioners within the fields of sport, leisure, health and education.
The History Of Physical Culture In Ireland
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Author : Conor Heffernan
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-01-24
The History Of Physical Culture In Ireland written by Conor Heffernan and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-24 with History categories.
This book is the first to deal with physical culture in an Irish context, covering educational, martial and recreational histories. Deemed by many to be a precursor to the modern interest in health and gym cultures, physical culture was a late nineteenth and early twentieth century interest in personal health which spanned national and transnational histories. It encompassed gymnasiums, homes, classrooms, depots and military barracks. Prior to this work, physical culture’s emergence in Ireland has not received thorough academic attention. Addressing issues of gender, childhood, nationalism, and commerce, this book is unique within an Irish context in studying an Irish manifestation of a global phenomenon. Tracing four decades of Irish history, the work also examines the influence of foreign fitness entrepreneurs in Ireland and contrasts them with their Irish counterparts.
The Myth Of The Queer Criminal
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Author : Jeffery P Dennis
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-10-19
The Myth Of The Queer Criminal written by Jeffery P Dennis and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-19 with Social Science categories.
The Myth of the Queer Criminal documents over a century of writings by sociologists, psychologists, criminologists, and forensic scientists, in Europe and the United States, who asserted that LGBT persons were innately and uniquely criminal. Applying the tools of narratology and queer theory, Jeffery P. Dennis examines the ten types of queer criminal that have appeared in seminal texts, both literary and scientific, over the past 140 years - beginning with Lombroso's Criminal Man (1876) and extending to postmodern criminologists and contemporary textbooks. Each type is named after its defining characteristic. The pederast, for example, was believed to be a master-criminal, leading vast criminal empires. The degenerate, intellectually and morally corrupted, was perceived as a symptom or cause of societal decay. The silly, lisping pansy was a figure of ridicule, rather than of dread. The traitor was murderous and depraved, prepared to destroy democratic institutions worldwide. The book aims to contextualize this mythology, revealing the motivations of the agents behind it, the influence of broader preoccupations and anxieties of the age, and its societal, political and cultural impact. This carefully researched, meticulously written history of the queer criminal will be of interest to students and researchers in criminology, gender studies, queer studies, and the history of sexuality.
The Perfectible Body
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Author : Kenneth R. Dutton
language : en
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Release Date : 1995
The Perfectible Body written by Kenneth R. Dutton and has been published by Burns & Oates this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Health & Fitness categories.
How was it that Renaissance Christianity could so readily adopt the pagan bodily ideals of ancient Greece, and by what process did they evolve into the visual language of bodybuilding, hulk calendars and male strippers?
Little Big Men
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Author : Alan M. Klein
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 1993-08-24
Little Big Men written by Alan M. Klein and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-08-24 with Social Science categories.
Little Big Men is a study of competitive bodybuilders on the West Coast that examines the subculture from the perspective of bodybuilders' everyday activities. It offers fascinating descriptions and insightful analogies of an important and understudied subculture that has risen to widespread popularity in today's mass culture. Alan Klein conducted his field study of bodybuilding in some of the world's best-known gyms. In studying the social and political relations of bodybuilding competitors, Klein explores not only gym dynamics but also the internal and external pressures bodybuilders face. Central to his examination is the critique of masculinity. Through his study of "hustling" among bodybuilders, Klein is able to construct a social-psychological male configuration that includes narcissism, homophobia, hypermasculinity, and fascism. Because they exist as exaggerations, these bodybuilder traits come to represent one end of the continuum of modern masculinity, what Klein terms comic-book masculinity. This study is a rare foray into the critique of contemporary American macho.
The Bodybuilding Bible For Men
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Author : Henrik Mulford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-07-06
The Bodybuilding Bible For Men written by Henrik Mulford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-06 with categories.
Looking good as they say, is good business. The better your body is shaped, the better you will feel about yourself, and the more confident you will be. This book will give you very informative body-building tips, both in the region of physical work-outs, and proper dieting. Indeed, the journey to having a great body isn't an easy one, and it will take years for you to become the beast you imagine. However, if you follow the guidelines set in this book, you will be able to achieve satisfactory results in the short term, which will further inspire you to reach your long term goals. This book was inspired by real-life experiences, not just the author's, but by other successful bodybuilders. If they can do it, then you can too. The only thing stopping you is YOU! In this book, you will find information on the following - The right diet for bodybuilders Different types of gym equipment How to use gym equipment How to train at home Training at home Vs Training at the gym How to remain focused on training How to gain muscle mass Pro bodybuilding models Celebrity bodybuilding models How to boost hormones Picking the right clothes for your new physique This book provides step by step guidelines that are simple and practical enough for beginners. It is also well detailed, and you will find it to be very helpful in your quest to become the ultimate alpha-male!