| Loại tài liệu | Tư liệu ngôn ngữ (Sách) | | Chỉ số ISBN | 9781529227949 | | Mã ngôn ngữ | eng | | | KF9219 .M87 | | Tên tác giả | Gibbs, Nick | | Thông tin nhan đề | The Muscle Trade Subtitle: The Use and Supply of Image and Performance Enhancing Drugs / Nick Gibbs | | Xuẩt bản,phát hành | Great Britain : Bristol University Press, 2024 | | Mô tả vật lý | 188p. ; 26cm
| | Tóm tắt/chú giải | The health and fitness industry has experienced a meteoric rise over the past two decades, yet its slick exterior conceals a darker side: image and performance enhancing drugs (IPEDs). Using ethnographic data from gyms, interviews, and social media platforms, this book investigates the growing use and supply of IPEDs in a UK context. Various levels of user motivation are explored, from the psychoanalytic processes of desire and bodily dissatisfaction to the instrumental and pleasurable aspects of consumption, and their relationship to social media. The gym is also critically examined as a space of deviant leisure, applying cutting edge criminological theory to build links between gym culture, masculinity, and consumption. Tracking the intricate relationship between supply and demand, The Muscle Trade then studies the local offline IPED market in the city of ‘Potsford’, before tracking the commercialization, normalization, and digitization of supply. Within this, particular attention is paid to the social media platforms Facebook and Instagram as spaces of self-representation and illicit commerce. Ultimately, this book serves as a guide to the muscle trade, its infrastructure, the various key actors, and the motivations behind chasing masculine bodily perfection
| | Từ khóa | 1. Criminology. |
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