Embodying Modernity: Race, Gender, and Fitness Culture in Brazil

by Daniel Silva

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Embodying Modernity examines the current boom of fitness culture in Brazil in the context of the white patriarchal notions of race, gender, and sexuality through which fitness practice, commodities, and cultural products traffic. The book traces the imperial meanings and orders of power conveyed through "fit" bodies and their different configurations of muscularity, beauty, strength, and health within mainstream visual media and national and...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0822947110

ISBN13:9780822947110

Release Date:April 2022

Publisher:University of Pittsburgh Press

Length:300 Pages

Weight:1.30 lbs.

Dimensions:1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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