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The Global Gym: Gender, Health and Pedagogies
Hardcover
Series: Global Culture and Sport
Bodybuilding & Weight TrainingGeneral Gender StudiesMen's Studies
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ISBN10: 1137346612
ISBN13: 9781137346612
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jul 2 2014
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781137346612
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jul 2 2014
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
By participating in the everyday life of fitness professionals, gym-goers and bodybuilders, The Global Gym explores fitness centres as sites of learning. The authors consider how physical, psychological and cultural knowledge about health and the body is incorporated into people's identity in a local and global gym and fitness context.
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