Extreme Sports, Extreme Bodies

Relates corporeal experiences and achievements to the socio-cultural context
Assesses the ways in which assumptions about health, gender and the body are embedded in extreme-sport practices
Contributes to a new understanding of three key extreme sports: mixed marital arts (MMA), ironman triathlon and bodybuilding

Relates corporeal experiences and achievements to the socio-cultural context Assesses the ways in which assumptions about health, gender and the body are embedded in extreme-sport practices Contributes to a new understanding of three key extreme sports: mixed marital arts (MMA), ironman triathlon and bodybuilding

Autorentext

Jesper Andreasson is Associate Professor of Sport Science at Linnaeus University, Sweden, researching predominantly in the fields of gender studies, the sociology of sport and gym/fitness culture.

Thomas Johansson is Professor of Child and Youth Studies at Gothenburg University, Sweden, and is one of the key researchers in the field of men and masculinities in the Nordic countries.

Inhalt

Part I: Introducing Extreme Sporting Bodies.- Chapter One: Introduction.- Chapter Two: Body Studies and Carnal Sociology.- Part II: Bodybuilding and the Fitness Revolution.- Chapter Three: Getting the Pump Pain and Pleasure in Muscle-building Practice.- Chapter Four: Negotiating the Subcultural body.- Chapter Five: Bodybuilding - Concluding Thoughts. - Part III: Bending Bodies Through Ironman Triathlon.- Chapter Six: Discipline, Transcendence and Bodily Fluids.- Chapter Seven: The Family Puzzle in Ironman Triathlon. - Chapter Eight: Ironman - Concluding Thoughts. Part IV: Mixed Martial Arts and Spectacular Bodies.- Chapter Nine: Fists, Blood and Emotions.- Chapter Ten: (Re)Negotiating Violence. - Chapter Eleven: MMA - Concluding Thoughts.- Part V: Theorising Extreme Bodies.- Chapter Twelve: Bodies in Theory and Practice.- Appendix: Research Design and Methodology.