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Cover 1 Title Page, Series Page, Copyright, Dedication 2 Contents 8 List of figures 9 Acknowledgements 10 Series editor’s foreword 12 Introduction 14 1. Becoming 38 2. Unexpected pleasures 58 3. Authentic swimming 76 4. Making it count 94 5. Who are you swimming for? 112 6. Gendering swimming 131 7. Heroic fatness 149 8. Failing bodies 165 Conclusion 186 References 192 Index 209 Publisher:Manchester University Press,Published:2016,ISBN:9781526100467,Language:English,OCLC:981859734 Immersion is about the extreme sport of marathon swimming. 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. Using marathon swimming as a lens, this foundation provides the basis for an exploration of what constitutes the 'good' body in contemporary neoliberal society across a range of sites including charitable swimming, fatness, gender and health. The book argues that the self-representations of marathon swimming are at odds with its lived realities, and that this reflects the entrenched and limited discursive resources available for thinking about the sporting b

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Author

Throsby, Karen

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781526139610

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Sports, Anthropology