Embodying modernity : race, gender, and fitness culture in Brazil /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Silva, Daniel F., 1985- (Author)
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2022]
Series:	Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Subjects:	Physical fitness > Social aspects > Brazil. Human body > Social aspects > Brazil. National characteristics, Brazilian. Corps humain > Aspect social > BreÌ?sil. BreÌ?siliens. HISTORY > General. Human body > Social aspects. Physical fitness > Social aspects. Brazil. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction : modernity, racial difference, and fitness
Gendering muscle and selling corporal fragments : global designs and nationalist narratives in fitness media and commodities
Exceptionalist imageries : bunduda spectacle and gluteal muscularity in popular visual culture
Bunduda exporacÌ§aÌƒo : the whitened national symbol in global fitness culture
Fitness, alterity and orders of whiteness in the configuration of modern feminine corporalities
From magazines to social media : white masculine corporality and the Brazilian public sphere
Marginalized masculinities and the deviant muscularity : race, disability, and sexuality
Race and fitness space : signifying modern and unmodern fitness locales and praxis
Conclusion.