Immersion - Marathon Swimming, Embodiment and Identity

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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 Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionPart I: Becoming and belonging1. Becoming2. Unexpected pleasures3. Authentic swimming4. Making it countPart II: The good body5. Who are you swimming for?6. Gendering swimming7. Heroic fatness8. Failing bodiesConclusion

Product details

• Authors: Karen Throsby
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.06.2016
• EAN: 9780719099625
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-9962-5
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: New Ethnographies; New Ethnograpies Mup; New Ethnographies; New Ethnograpies Mup
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)