Performance Cultures and Doped Bodies: Challenging categories, gender norms, and policy responses

by Jesper Andreasson and April Henning

Book Overview

Why has doping, both as a practice and a social phenomenon, been approached largely as a question of context: sport or fitness? Individuals may use substances to enhance sporting performance or within the framework of gym and fitness culture to create a perfect body. But clearly, people who dope are not bound to a singular context. It is quite the opposite, as individuals weave between and move across various settings in their trajectories to and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1863352414
• ISBN13: 9781863352413
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Common Ground Research Networks
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"