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Karen Throsby

Immersion - Marathon Swimming, Embodiment and Identity

English · Paperback / Softback

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Description

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

List of contents

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

About the author

Karen Throsby is Associate Professor in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds

Product details

Authors	Karen Throsby
Publisher	Manchester University Press

Languages	English
Product format	Paperback / Softback
Released	30.04.2019

EAN	9781526139610
ISBN	978-1-5261-3961-0
No. of pages	216
Series	New Ethnograpies Mup New Ethnographies New Ethnograpies Mup
Subject	Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)

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