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- Investigates and identifies different processes by which a person becomes and unbecomes a “fitness doper"
- Problematises and challenges the gender politics that have traditionally been attached to fitness doping (trajectories)
- Analyses the processes by which dichotomies such as masculinity/femininity, criminal/legal, and healthy/unhealthy are negotiated and destabilised by users, both online and offline
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Contextualizing Fitness Doping
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Doping Trajectories
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Doped Bodies and Gender
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Conclusions
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About this book
This book compiles several years of multi-faceted qualitative research on fitness doping to provide a fresh insight into how the growing phenomenon intersects with issues of gender, body and health in contemporary society.
Drawing on biographical interviews, as well as online and offline ethnography, Andreasson and Johansson analyse how, in the context of the global development of gym and fitness culture, particular doping trajectories are formulated, and users come into contact with doping. They also explore users’ internalisation of particular values, practices and communications and analyse how this influences understandings of the self, health, gender and the body, as well as tying this into wider beliefs regarding individual freedom and the law.
This insight into doping goes beyond elite and organised sports, and will be of interest to students and scholars across the sociology of sport, leisure studies, and gender and body politics.
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Sport Science, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
Jesper Andreasson
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Department of Education, Communication and Learning, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Thomas Johansson
About the authors
Jesper Andreasson is Associate Professor of Sport Science at Linnaeus University, Sweden.
Thomas Johansson is Professor of Child and Youth Studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fitness Doping
Book Subtitle: Trajectories, Gender, Bodies and Health
Authors: Jesper Andreasson, Thomas Johansson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22105-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-22104-1Published: 04 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-22107-2Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-22105-8Published: 25 June 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 217
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Sociology of the Body, Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance, Gender Studies