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Immersion : Marathon swimming, embodiment and identity /
Immersion is about the extreme sport of marathon swimming. Drawing on extensive (auto)ethnographic data, Immersion explores the embodied and social processes of becoming a marathon swimmer and investigates how social belonging is produced and policed. Using marathon swimming as a lens, this foundati...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2016.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
- Introduction
- Part I: Becoming and belonging
- 1. Becoming
- 2. Unexpected pleasures
- 3. Authentic swimming
- 4. Making it count
- Part II: The good body
- 5. Who are you swimming for?
- 6. Gendering swimming
- 7. Heroic fatness
- 8. Failing bodies
- Conclusion