Fitness Doping: Trajectories, Gender, Bodies and Health

by Thomas Johansson and Jesper Andreasson

Book Overview

This book compiles several years of multi-faceted qualitative research on fitness doping to provide a fresh insight into how the growing phenomenon intersects with issues of gender, body and health in contemporary society.

Drawing on biographical interviews, as well as online and offline ethnography, Andreasson and Johansson analyse how, in the context of the global development of gym and fitness culture, particular doping trajectories...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030221075
• ISBN13: 9783030221072
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 217 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"