Muscle Works: Physical Culture and the Performance of Masculinity by Chow, Broderick D. V.
Muscle Works: Physical Culture and the Performance of Masculinity by Chow, Broderick D. V.

Muscle Works: Physical Culture and the Performance of Masculinity

Men's fitness as a performance--from nineteenth-century theatrical exhibitions to health and wellness practices today This book recounts...
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Author: Broderick D. V. Chow
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Language: English
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Muscle Works: Physical Culture and the Performance of Masculinity by Chow, Broderick D. V.

Muscle Works: Physical Culture and the Performance of Masculinity

$108.01
Muscle Works: Physical Culture and the Performance of Masculinity by Chow, Broderick D. V.

Muscle Works: Physical Culture and the Performance of Masculinity

$108.01
Author: Broderick D. V. Chow
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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.

Author: Broderick D. V. Chow
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 07/15/2024
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.06w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9780810147362

About the Author
BRODERICK D. V. CHOW is Reader and Director of Learning, Teaching and Inclusion at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. He is coeditor of the volumes Sports Plays (2022) and Performance and Professional Wrestling (2016), as well as a competitive Olympic weightlifter and British Weight Lifting qualified coach.
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