The muscle trade: the use and supply of image and performance enhancing drugs

The health and fitness industry has experienced a meteoric rise over the past two decades, yet its slick exterior conceals a darker side. Using ethnographic data from gyms, interviews and social media platforms, this book investigates the growing use of image and performance-enhancing drugs (IPEDs)...

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1. Verfasser: Gibbs, Nick (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Bristol Bristol University Press 2024
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Zusammenfassung:The health and fitness industry has experienced a meteoric rise over the past two decades, yet its slick exterior conceals a darker side. Using ethnographic data from gyms, interviews and social media platforms, this book investigates the growing use of image and performance-enhancing drugs (IPEDs) and their role in masculine body image
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Front Matter -- - Contents -- - List of Figures, Tables, and Boxes -- - Dramatis Personae -- - Notes on the Author -- - Acknowledgements -- - Foreword -- - Introduction -- - Situating the Research -- - Reimagining the Health and Fitness Industry as a Site of Deviant Leisure -- - Consumption -- - Desire and Dissatisfaction in the Gym -- - Instrumentality, Competitiveness, and Hyper-conformity -- - The Pleasures of Consumption: The Curious Case of Phillip -- - #Ripped: Social Media, Prosumption, and Bodily Desire -- - Supply-side -- - Production -- - The Offline IPED Marketplace -- - The IPED Market in Transition: Commercialization, Normalization, and Digitization -- - The Online IPED Market -- - Conclusion -- - Notes -- - References -- - Index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 188 Seiten)
ISBN:9781529228045
DOI:10.46692/9781529228045

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