Embodying Modernity : Race, Gender, and Fitness Culture in Brazil /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Silva, Daniel F., 1985- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
National characteristics, Brazilian.
Human body > Social aspects > Brazil.
Physical fitness > Social aspects > Brazil.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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