Drawing on extensive (auto)ethnographic data, Immersion explores the embodied and social processes of becoming a marathon swimmer and investigates how social belonging is produced and policed
Drawing on extensive (auto)ethnographic data, Immersion explores the embodied and social processes of becoming a marathon swimmer and investigates how social belonging is produced and policedHinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Karen Throsby has been researching issues of gender, technology, bodies and health for over 20 years, including work on reproductive technologies, weight loss surgery and endurance sport. She is the author of Immersion: Marathon Swimming, Identity and Embodiment (2016) and When IVF Fails: Feminist, Infertility and the Negotiation of Normality (2004). She is currently Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Leeds.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Part I: Becoming and belonging 1. Becoming 2. Unexpected pleasures 3. Authentic swimming 4. Making it count Part II: The good body 5. Who are you swimming for? 6. Gendering swimming 7. Heroic fatness 8. Failing bodies Conclusion
Introduction Part I: Becoming and belonging 1. Becoming 2. Unexpected pleasures 3. Authentic swimming 4. Making it count Part II: The good body 5. Who are you swimming for? 6. Gendering swimming 7. Heroic fatness 8. Failing bodies Conclusion
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