Name: Muscle Works: Physical Culture and the Performance of Masculinity (Performance Works) (en Inglés)
SKU: 62226850
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Author: Broderick D.V. Chow
ISBN: 9780810147362

portada Muscle Works: Physical Culture and the Performance of Masculinity (Performance Works) (en Inglés)

Muscle Works: Physical Culture and the Performance of Masculinity (Performance Works) (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Northwestern University Press

Autor

Broderick D.V. Chow

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

248

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780810147362

Muscle Works: Physical Culture and the Performance of Masculinity (Performance Works) (en Inglés)

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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.