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Product Identifiers
PublisherTaylor & Francis Group
ISBN-101138666262
ISBN-139781138666269
eBay Product ID (ePID)238092763
Product Key Features
Number of Pages232 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameGym Bodies : Exploring Fitness Cultures
Publication Year2020
SubjectSociology / General, Bodybuilding & Weight Training, General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaSports & Recreation, Social Science
AuthorJames Brighton, Amy Clark, Ian Wellard
SeriesRoutledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal796.4068
Table Of ContentChapter 1: Introducing (Our) Gym Bodies and Fitness Cultures James Brighton, Ian Wellard, and Amy Clark Chapter 2: Conceptualising Gym Bodies James Brighton, Ian Wellard, and Amy Clark Chapter 3: A History of Gyms and the Evolvement of Contemporary Fitness James Brighton, Ian Wellard, and Amy Clark Chapter 4: Embodied Methodological Considerations James Brighton Chapter 5: Gym Spaces James Brighton, Ian Wellard, and Amy Clark Chapter 6: Being Personally Trained Ian Wellard Chapter 7: CrossFit James Brighton Chapter 8: Spinning Amy Clark Chapter 9: Reflections James Brighton, Ian Wellard, and Amy Clark Appendix 1: Judgement Criteria employed Appendix 2: WOD Acronyms in CrossFit Appendix 3: The original 'Girls'
SynopsisDrawing 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., This fascinating new book explores the embodied experiences of 'gym goers' and the fitness cultures that are constructed within gyms and fitness spaces, drawing on cutting-edge empirical research. 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., In spite of the rapid increase in the number of gyms and the diversification of fitness practices within them, there has been a lack of empirically-based research that explores the embodied experiences of 'gym goers' and the fitness cultures that are constructed within these spaces. This fascinating new book offers a personal, interactive, ethnographic account of the multiplicity of contemporary gym practices, spaces and cultures. 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.
