Karen Throsby 
Immersion [EPUB ebook] 
Marathon swimming, embodiment and identity

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Immersion is about the extreme sport of marathon swimming. 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. Using marathon swimming as a lens, this foundation provides the basis for an exploration of what constitutes the ‘good’ body in contemporary neoliberal society across a range of sites including charitable swimming, fatness, gender and health. The book argues that the self-representations of marathon swimming are at odds with its lived realities, and that this reflects the entrenched and limited discursive resources available for thinking about the sporting body in the wider social and cultural context.
The book is aimed primarily at readers at undergraduate level and upwards with an interest in sociology, the sociology of the body, the sociology of sport, gender and the sociology of health and illness.

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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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Taal Engels ● Formaat EPUB ● Pagina’s 256 ● ISBN 9781526100474 ● Bestandsgrootte 2.2 MB ● Uitgeverij Manchester University Press ● Stad Manchester ● Land GB ● Gepubliceerd 2016 ● Downloadbare 24 maanden ● Valuta EUR ● ID 6821618 ● Kopieerbeveiliging Adobe DRM
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