Muscle Works : Physical Culture and the Performance of Masculinity (Performance Works)

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Muscle Works : Physical Culture and the Performance of Masculinity (Performance Works)

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 240 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780810147379
  • DDC分類 613.7

Full Description

Men's fitness as a performance—from nineteenth-century theatrical exhibitions to health and wellness practices today
 
This book recounts the story of fitness culture from its beginnings as spectacles of strongmen, weightlifters, acrobats, and wrestlers to its legitimization in the twentieth-century in the form of competitive sports and health and wellness practices. Broderick D. V. Chow shows how these modes of display contribute to the construction and deconstruction of definitions of masculinity.
 
Attending to its theatrical origins, Chow argues for a more nuanced understanding of fitness culture, one informed by the legacies of self-described Strongest Man in the World Eugen Sandow and the history of fakery in strongman performance; the philosophy of weightlifter George Hackenschmidt and the performances of martial artist Bruce Lee; and the intersections of fatigue, resistance training, and whiteness. Muscle Works: Physical Culture and the Performance of Masculinity moves beyond the gym and across the archive, working out techniques, poses, and performances to consider how, as gendered subjects, we inhabit and make worlds through our bodies.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1.Hypertrophy:Men's Bodybuilding and Theatricality
Chapter 2.Transformation:The Dynamic Tensions of "Before and After"
Chapter 3. Strength:Astonishing Feats with Willful Things
Chapter 4. Failure and Recovery:The Cross-Contamination of Progressive Overload
Chapter 5. Grappling:George Hackenschmidt's Education in Wrestling
Chapter 6. Mirror:Racial Impressibility and the Built Asian Male Body
Coda. Muscle Beach, 1934-1958: Prelude, Pause, and Utopia
Notes
Index