The Global Gym Gender, Health and Pedagogies
Description
By participating in the everyday life of fitness professionals, gym-goers and bodybuilders, The Global Gym explores fitness centres as sites of learning. The authors consider how physical, psychological and cultural knowledge about health and the body is incorporated into people's identity in a local and global gym and fitness context.
Keywords
Social ScienceGender StudiesSports & RecreationSports PsychologySociologyTechnology & EngineeringScienceLife SciencesWomen's StudiesCultural & Social AspectsEngineering (General)
2014Book
Author(s)Jesper Andreasson
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9781137346612
LanguageEnglish
