The global gym : gender, health and pedagogies /
Andreasson, Jesper,
The global gym : gender, health and pedagogies / Jesper Andreasson, Linnaeus University, Sweden and Thomas Johansson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. - vii, 198 pages ; 23 cm. - Global culture and sport series . - Global culture and sport. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Historical and contemporary perspectives -- Becoming a fitness professional -- Learning bodily sensations -- getting the pump -- Gender and fitness in the global blogosphere -- Beauty, health and doping trajectories -- Healthy and heavenly bodies? -- Conclusions 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
"Both by participating in the everyday life of fitness professionals, gym-goers and bodybuilders, and by analyzing fitness blogs and other sources, The Global Gym explores fitness centres as sites of learning. The authors examine the kind of learning processes that take place within the gym and the wider fitness industry, and investigate how knowledge is acquired, negotiated and embodied by different agents operating within this context. Beyond this, the book also addresses the construction of gender within fitness culture. Many images of the body beautiful and perfect body ideals are manufactured and sold on a global commercial market. Jesper Andreasson and Thomas Johansson illustrate various extant modes of learning by asking how physical, psychological and cultural knowledge about health and the body is incorporated into people's (gender) identity in a local, national and global gym and fitness context."--Publisher's website.
1137346612 9781137346612
2014019516
Physical fitness--Social aspects
Physical fitness centers--Social aspects
Gymnasiums--Social aspects
Human body--Social aspects
Gender identity.
GV342.27 / .A64 2014
613.7
The global gym : gender, health and pedagogies / Jesper Andreasson, Linnaeus University, Sweden and Thomas Johansson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. - vii, 198 pages ; 23 cm. - Global culture and sport series . - Global culture and sport. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Historical and contemporary perspectives -- Becoming a fitness professional -- Learning bodily sensations -- getting the pump -- Gender and fitness in the global blogosphere -- Beauty, health and doping trajectories -- Healthy and heavenly bodies? -- Conclusions 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
"Both by participating in the everyday life of fitness professionals, gym-goers and bodybuilders, and by analyzing fitness blogs and other sources, The Global Gym explores fitness centres as sites of learning. The authors examine the kind of learning processes that take place within the gym and the wider fitness industry, and investigate how knowledge is acquired, negotiated and embodied by different agents operating within this context. Beyond this, the book also addresses the construction of gender within fitness culture. Many images of the body beautiful and perfect body ideals are manufactured and sold on a global commercial market. Jesper Andreasson and Thomas Johansson illustrate various extant modes of learning by asking how physical, psychological and cultural knowledge about health and the body is incorporated into people's (gender) identity in a local, national and global gym and fitness context."--Publisher's website.
1137346612 9781137346612
2014019516
Physical fitness--Social aspects
Physical fitness centers--Social aspects
Gymnasiums--Social aspects
Human body--Social aspects
Gender identity.
GV342.27 / .A64 2014
613.7