Critical Readings in Bodybuilding is the first collection to address the contemporary practice of bodybuilding, especially the way in which the activity has become increasingly more extreme, and to consider much neglected debates of gender, eroticism, and sexuality related to the activity.
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Place: UK
Publication Year: 2013-03-12
Language: English
Number of Pages: 272
Edition: 1
Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
Tracing development of scientific sociology from Comte onwards, this book provides a narrative history of figures, ideas, and schools that lie behind ..