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Performance cultures and doped bodies : challenging categories, gender norms, and policy responses / Jesper Andreasson, April Henning.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Andreasson, Jesper, author.
- Henning, April, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Doping in sports--Social aspects.
- Doping in sports.
- Athletes--Drug use.
- Athletes.
- Human body--Social aspects.
- Human body.
- Physical fitness--Social aspects.
- Physical fitness.
- Gender identity in sports.
- Other Title:
- Performance Cultures and Doped Bodies
- Place of Publication:
- Common Ground Research Networks
- Summary:
- "Building on data gathered through ethnographic fieldwork, studies of online doping communities, and in-depth case studies, this book embraces the challenge of moving beyond traditional and historical doping dichotomies - such as sport or fitness, online or offline, pleasure or harm, masculinity or femininity, and health or harm - and develops new terminology to understand trajectories to and from doping"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The interwoven histories of sports and fitness doping
- Trajectories, cultural recalibration, and contextual mobility
- Women's gender-bending in man-spreading cultures
- Sex, drugs, and muscles : "Welcome to Planet Porno"
- Anti-doping : producing health or harm?
- ISBN:
- 1-86335-242-2
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