| Description |
1 online resource (x, 199 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
New ethnographies
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New ethnographies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-195) and index. |
| 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. |
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'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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Belonging (Social psychology)
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Belonging (Social psychology) |
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Sports -- Sociological aspects.
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Sports -- Sociological aspects. |
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Long distance swimming.
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Long distance swimming. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Thosby, Karen. Immersion. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016 (DLC) 2016285386 |
| ISBN |
9781526100467 |
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1526100460 |
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0719099625 |
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9780719099625 |
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