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Embodying modernity : race, gender, and fitness culture in Brazil /

"Since the late twentieth century, mainstream popular culture in Brazil has developed an intimate relationship with fitness culture-a vast, fluid, and pervasive network of images and commodities, bodies of knowledge, and discourses pertaining to idealized corporality and personhood. Embodying M...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Silva, Daniel F., 1985- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2022]
Collection:Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction : modernity, racial difference, and fitness
  • Gendering muscle and selling corporal fragments : global designs and nationalist narratives in fitness media and commodities
  • Exceptionalist imageries : bunduda spectacle and gluteal muscularity in popular visual culture
  • Bunduda exporação : the whitened national symbol in global fitness culture
  • Fitness, alterity and orders of whiteness in the configuration of modern feminine corporalities
  • From magazines to social media : white masculine corporality and the Brazilian public sphere
  • Marginalized masculinities and the deviant muscularity : race, disability, and sexuality
  • Race and fitness space : signifying modern and unmodern fitness locales and praxis
  • Conclusion.