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
Auflage
Sprache
Verlagsort
Verlagsgruppe
Springer International Publishing
Zielgruppe
Illustrationen
10
10 farbige Abbildungen
IX, 248 p. 10 illus. in color.
Maße
Höhe: 216 mm
Breite: 153 mm
Dicke: 19 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-3-319-97237-4 (9783319972374)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-97238-1
Schweitzer Klassifikation
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.
