Gym Bodies: Exploring Fitness Cultures (Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society)

This fascinating new book explores the embodied experiences of 'gym goers' and the fitness cultures that are constructed within gyms and fitness spaces, drawing on cutting-edge empirical research. Gym Bodiesoffers a personal, interactive, ethnographic account of the multiplicity of contemporary gym practices, spaces and cultures, including bodybuilding, CrossFit and Spinning. It argues that gym bodies are historically constructed, social, sensual, emotional and political; that experience intersects with multiple embodied identities; and that fitness cultures are profoundly important in shaping the body in wider contemporary culture. This is important reading for students, tutors and researchers working in sport and exercise studies, sociology of the body, health studies, leisure, cultural studies, gender, and education. It is also a valuable resource for policy makers and practitioners within the fields of sport, leisure, health and education.

• | Author: James Brighton
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: October 16, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 220 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1138666262
• | ISBN-13: 9781138666269