The Global Gym: Gender, Health and Pedagogies

by Thomas Johansson, Jesper Andreasson, T. Johansson

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349467049
• ISBN13: 9781349467044
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"