Название: Extreme Sports, Extreme Bodies: Gender, Identities and Bodies in Motion
Автор: Jesper Andreasson and Thomas Johansson
Издательство: Palgrave Macmillan
Год: 2018
Формат: PDF
Размер: 3 Мб
Язык: английский / English

This book investigates extreme sports, defined as sports in which athletes challenge and transgress societal perceptions of what is humanly possible to achieve, in terms of physical training and bodily development/performance. Situated within a growing body of literature analysing the impact of new training trends on an individual’s body, identity, lifestyle and perception of his/her social surroundings, Extreme Sports, Extreme Bodies focuses on the gendered and embodied experiences of bodybuilding, Ironman triathlon, and mixed martial arts.