The prominence of the body in popular culture has prompted intense academic interest in
recent decades. Seeking to overturn a naturalistic approach to the body as a biological …

Every successful sports coach knows that good teaching and social practices are just as
important as expertise in sports skills and tactics. Now in a fully revised and updated fourth …

The Anthropology of Food and Body explores the way that making, eating, and thinking
about food reveal culturally determined gender-power relations in diverse societies. This …

Dworkin and Wachs analyze 10 years of health and fitness magazines to uncover how
bodies are made in popular culture Are you ripped? Do you need to work on your abs? Do …

Sportswomen live in 2 cultures: the sport culture that is inherently masculine and the larger
social culture where femininity is celebrated for women. In this investigation, which was …

Through an interview-based study, Victoria Pitts has researched the subcultural milieu of
contemporary body modification, focusing on the ways sexuality, gender and ethnicity are …

Sociological studies of women's experiences with conservative religions are typically framed
by a paradox that ponders women's complicity. The prevailing view associates agency with …

This book focuses on sex and power. In other words, it is about exploring and questioning
every aspect of the organisation of our social life–from a kiss to the framing of states and …

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Exploring the more sophisticated and nuanced perspective in the era of sports dominance in
America, athletics have become both a metaphor and reality of American masculinity. Edited …