Karen Throsby

Gebundenes Buch

Immersion

Marathon swimming, embodiment and identity

Beschreibung

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

Autor

Karen Throsby has been researching issues of gender, technology, bodies and health for over 20 years, including work on reproductive technologies, weight loss surgery and endurance sport. She is the author of Immersion: Marathon Swimming, Identity and Embodiment (2016) and When IVF Fails: Feminist, Infertility and the Negotiation of Normality (2004). She is currently Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Leeds.

Produktdetails

• New Ethnographies
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 506g
• ISBN-13: 9780719099625
• ISBN-10: 0719099625
• Artikelnr.: 45101524