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Written by leading social scientists working in and across a
variety of analytic traditions, this ambitious, insightful volume
explores interpretation as a focal metaphor for understanding the
body’s influence, meaning, and matter in society. Interpreting
body and embodiment in social movements, health and medicine, race,
sex and gender, globalization, colonialism, education, and other
contexts, the book’s chapters call into question
taken-for-granted ideas of where the self, the social world, and
the body begin and end. Encouraging reflection and opening new
perspectives on theories of the body that cut through the classic
mind/body divide, this is an important contribution to the
literature on the body.
Written by leading social scientists working in and across a
variety of analytic traditions, this ambitious, insightful volume
explores interpretation as a focal metaphor for understanding the
body’s influence, meaning, and matter in society. Interpreting
body and embodiment in social movements, health and medicine, race,
sex and gender, globalization, colonialism, education, and other
contexts, the book’s chapters call into question
taken-for-granted ideas of where the self, the social world, and
the body begin and end. Encouraging reflection and opening new
perspectives on theories of the body that cut through the classic
mind/body divide, this is an important contribution to the
literature on the body.
Current popular interest in bodies, fitness, sport and active lifestyles, has made bodybuilding more visible and acceptable within mainstream society than ever before. However, the association between bodybuilding, drugs and risk has contributed to a negative image of an activity which many people find puzzling. Using data obtained from participant observation and interviews, this book explores bodybuilding subculture from the perspective of the bodybuilder. It looks at: * How bodybuilders try to maintain competent social identities * How they manage the risks of using steroids and other physique-enhancing drugs * How they understand the alleged steroid-violence link * How they 'see' the muscular body. Through systematic exploration it becomes apparent that previous attempts to explain bodybuilding in terms of 'masculinity-in-crisis' or gender insecurity are open to question. Different and valuable insights into what sustains and legitimizes potentially dangerous drug-taking activities are provided by this detailed picture of a huge underground subculture.
Current popular interest in bodies, fitness, sport and active lifestyles, has made bodybuilding more visible and acceptable within mainstream society than ever before. However, the association between bodybuilding, drugs and risk has contributed to a negative image of an activity which many people find puzzling. Using data obtained from participant observation and interviews, this book explores bodybuilding subculture from the perspective of the bodybuilder. It looks at: * How bodybuilders try to maintain competent social identities * How they manage the risks of using steroids and other physique-enhancing drugs * How they understand the alleged steroid-violence link * How they 'see' the muscular body. Through systematic exploration it becomes apparent that previous attempts to explain bodybuilding in terms of 'masculinity-in-crisis' or gender insecurity are open to question. Different and valuable insights into what sustains and legitimizes potentially dangerous drug-taking activities are provided by this detailed picture of a huge underground subculture.
There is considerable rhetoric and concern about weight and obesity
across an increasing range of national contexts. Alarmist claims
about an 'obesity time-bomb' are continually recycled in policy
reports, reviews and white papers, each of which begin with the
assumption that fatness is fundamentally unhealthy and damaging to
national economies. With contributions from the UK, Canada, the USA
and Australia, this book offers alternative critical perspectives
on this alleged public health crisis which were, in part, developed
through an Economic and Social Research Council seminar series on
Fat Studies and Health at Every Size (HAES). Written by scholars
from a range of disciplines and the health professions, themes
include: an interrogation of statistical procedures used to
construct the obesity epidemic, overweight and obesity as cultural
signifiers for Type 2 diabetes, understandings of healthy eating
and healthy weight in a 'problem' population, gendered expectations
on men and women to lose weight, the visual representation of
obesity, tensions when researching (anti-)fatness, critical
dietitians' engagement with HAES, alternative ways of promoting
physical activity, and representations of obesity in the media.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical
Public Health.
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