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Performance cultures and doped bodies : challenging categories, gender norms, and policy responses / Jesper Andreasson, April Henning.

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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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