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Anabolic Androgenic Steroid
Anabolic Steroids
Author_Lee Monaghan
Bodily Regimes
bodybuilder
bodybuilders
Bodybuilding Competitions
Bodybuilding Gyms
Bodybuilding Habitus
Bodybuilding Subculture
Category=SCK
Category=SXB
competition
Competition Bodybuilder
Critical Feminist Studies
diary
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ethnopharmacological
Ethnopharmacological Knowledge
female
Female Bodybuilders
field
Field Diary
gender and embodiment studies
Generic Copies
identity construction sociology
Male Bodybuilders
Muscular Body
Olympia Gym
performance enhancement drugs
Professional Bodybuilder
Professional Bodybuilding
qualitative fieldwork research
risk management practices
social deviance analysis
Stereotyped Constructs
steroid
Steroid Handbook
steroid use ethnographic study
Steroid Users
subculture
Tattooing
USA
users
Wacquant 1995a
Weight Trainer
Product details
- ISBN 9780415226837
- Weight: 294g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 07 Dec 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Current popular interest in bodies, fitness, sport and active lifestyles, has made bodybuilding more visible and acceptable within mainstream society than ever before. However, the association between bodybuilding, drugs and risk has contributed to a negative image of an activity which many people find puzzling.
Using data obtained from participant observation and interviews, this book explores bodybuilding subculture from the perspective of the bodybuilder. It looks at:
* How bodybuilders try to maintain competent social identities
* How they manage the risks of using steroids and other physique-enhancing drugs
* How they understand the alleged steroid-violence link
* How they 'see' the muscular body.
Through systematic exploration it becomes apparent that previous attempts to explain bodybuilding in terms of 'masculinity-in-crisis' or gender insecurity are open to question. Different and valuable insights into what sustains and legitimizes potentially dangerous drug-taking activities are provided by this detailed picture of a huge underground subculture.
