A Genealogy of Male Bodybuilding

Produktbeschreibung

This book looks at the development of dominant, organized, male bodybuilding culture from its early period (1880s) up until the present, tracing its transformations and offering an updated account for its current "extreme" direction. Unpacking this development both in terms of bodybuilding's own trajectory and the wider sociocultural processes it has been part of, the work uses a unique combination of historical and empirical data and, focusing on organized displays of the built body as a platform for investigating the diverse body aesthetics, models of embodied practice, aesthetics of representation and formal spectacles that have marked the history of bodybuilding. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Researching Built Bodies

1. Historical and Theoretical Coordinates of Bodybuilding's Trajectory

2. Building 'Perfect' Bodies: The Restorative Model of the Early Period
(1880s-1930s)

3. From 'Ideal Manhood' to 'Muscle For Muscle's Sake:' Shift of Paradigm in the
Middle Period (1940s-1970s)

4. Breaking Boundaries: Freaky Bodies and the Paradigm of Elite Sport
Performance

5. Machine, Animal, Hardcore: Freak as Dominant Approach to the Embodied
Practice, Aesthetic of Representation, and Group Identity

6. A Monstrous Practice for Producing the Monstrous Body: Drug Use for
Bodybuilding Purposes

7. Extreme Sport and Corporate Entertainment: The Freaky Body as Commodified
Spectacle

Conclusion 

Autoreninfo

Dimitris Liokaftos is a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Sport Science Section, Department of Public Health at Aarhus University, Denmark