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The global gym : gender, health and pedagogies / Jesper Andreasson and Thomas Johansson.

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The global gym : gender, health and pedagogies / Jesper Andreasson and Thomas Johansson.
Author
Andreasson, Jesper
Publication
Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

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  • Johansson, Thomas.
  • Johansson, Thomas, 1959-
Description
vii, 198 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
"Both by participating in the everyday life of fitness professionals, gym-goers and bodybuilders, and by analyzing fitness blogs and other sources, The Global Gym explores fitness centres as sites of learning. The authors examine the kind of learning processes that take place within the gym and the wider fitness industry, and investigate how knowledge is acquired, negotiated and embodied by different agents operating within this context. Beyond this, the book also addresses the construction of gender within fitness culture. Many images of the body beautiful and perfect body ideals are manufactured and sold on a global commercial market. Jesper Andreasson and Thomas Johansson illustrate various extant modes of learning by asking how physical, psychological and cultural knowledge about health and the body is incorporated into people's (gender) identity in a local, national and global gym and fitness context."--
Series Statement
Global culture and sport series
Uniform Title
Global culture and sport.
Subject
  • Gymnasiums > Social aspects
  • Physical fitness > Social aspects
  • Physical fitness centers > Social aspects
  • Exercise > Social aspects
  • Health > Social aspects
  • Human body > Social aspects
  • Gender identity
  • Body image > Social aspects
  • Gymnasiums
  • Gender Identity
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-189) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction -- Historical and contemporary perspectives -- Becoming a fitness professional -- Learning bodily sensations--getting the pump -- Gender and fitness in the global blogosphere -- Beauty, health and doping trajectories -- Healthy and heavenly bodies? -- Conclusions.
ISBN
  • 9781137346612
  • 1137346612
OCLC
872408736
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library