Muscle Works: Physical Culture and the Performance of Masculinity - Brossura

Chow, Broderick D. V.

 
9780810147362: Muscle Works: Physical Culture and the Performance of Masculinity
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ISBN 10: 081014736X ISBN 13: 9780810147362
Casa editrice: Northwestern Univ Pr, 2024

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Men’s fitness as a performance—from nineteenth-century theatrical exhibitions to health and wellness practices today
 
This book recounts the story of fitness culture from its beginnings as spectacles of strongmen, weightlifters, acrobats, and wrestlers to its legitimization in the twentieth-century in the form of competitive sports and health and wellness practices. Broderick D. V. Chow shows how these modes of display contribute to the construction and deconstruction of definitions of masculinity.
 
Attending to its theatrical origins, Chow argues for a more nuanced understanding of fitness culture, one informed by the legacies of self-described Strongest Man in the World Eugen Sandow and the history of fakery in strongman performance; the philosophy of weightlifter George Hackenschmidt and the performances of martial artist Bruce Lee; and the intersections of fatigue, resistance training, and whiteness. Muscle Works: Physical Culture and the Performance of Masculinity moves beyond the gym and across the archive, working out techniques, poses, and performances to consider how, as gendered subjects, we inhabit and make worlds through our bodies.

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Informazioni sull?autore

BRODERICK D. V. CHOW is Reader and Director of Learning, Teaching and Inclusion at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. He is coeditor of the volumes Sports Plays (2022) and Performance and Professional Wrestling (2016), as well as a competitive Olympic weightlifter and British Weight Lifting qualified coach.

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Editore
Northwestern Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2024
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
081014736X
ISBN 13 
9780810147362
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
235
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
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9780810147379: Muscle Works: Physical Culture and the Performance of Masculinity

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ISBN 10:  0810147378 ISBN 13:  9780810147379
Casa editrice: Northwestern Univ Pr, 2024
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