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Immersion : marathon swimming, embodiment and identity / Karen Thosby.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New ethnographiesPublication details: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.Description: 1 online resource (x, 199 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781526100467
  • 1526100460
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Immersion.DDC classification:
  • 797.2/1 23
LOC classification:
  • GV838.53.L65 T46 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Series editor's foreword; Introduction; Marathon swimming; Aquatic sociology; Immersion; Notes; I Becoming and belonging; 1 Becoming; Techniques of the body; Sensory transformations; Conclusion; Notes; 2 Unexpected pleasures; Recoding suffering as pleasure; Novel pleasures; Conclusion; 3 Authentic swimming; Brittany King; Diana Nyad; The arbitrariness of rules; Respect; Conclusion; Notes; 4 Making it count; Bearing witness.
'What gets measured, gets improved''There's no marching band ... '; Conclusion; Notes; II The good body; 5 Who are you swimming for?; Charitable swimming; 'It just makes perfect sense ... '; Win-win; Swimming to swim; Conclusion; Notes; 6 Gendering swimming; 'We're all just swimmers'; Making gender matter; Gendered lives, gendered leisure; Resisting gender; A feminist politics of swimming?; Conclusion; Notes; 7 Heroic fatness; Heroic fatness; Unsettling heroic fatness; Conclusion; Notes; 8 Failing bodies; Injured bodies; 'After all, you're doing your bit to stay healthy'; DNF; Conclusion; Notes.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-195) and index.

Print version record.

Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Series editor's foreword; Introduction; Marathon swimming; Aquatic sociology; Immersion; Notes; I Becoming and belonging; 1 Becoming; Techniques of the body; Sensory transformations; Conclusion; Notes; 2 Unexpected pleasures; Recoding suffering as pleasure; Novel pleasures; Conclusion; 3 Authentic swimming; Brittany King; Diana Nyad; The arbitrariness of rules; Respect; Conclusion; Notes; 4 Making it count; Bearing witness.

'What gets measured, gets improved''There's no marching band ... '; Conclusion; Notes; II The good body; 5 Who are you swimming for?; Charitable swimming; 'It just makes perfect sense ... '; Win-win; Swimming to swim; Conclusion; Notes; 6 Gendering swimming; 'We're all just swimmers'; Making gender matter; Gendered lives, gendered leisure; Resisting gender; A feminist politics of swimming?; Conclusion; Notes; 7 Heroic fatness; Heroic fatness; Unsettling heroic fatness; Conclusion; Notes; 8 Failing bodies; Injured bodies; 'After all, you're doing your bit to stay healthy'; DNF; Conclusion; Notes.

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