Extreme Sports, Extreme Bodies Gender, Identities and Bodies in Motion /

• Main Authors: Andreasson, Jesper (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Johansson, Thomas (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Sports-Sociological aspects.; Culture.; Gender.; Sociology.; Sociology of Sport and Leisure.; Culture and Gender.; Gender Studies.

This book investigates extreme sports, defined as sports in which athletes challenge and transgress societal perceptions of what is humanly possible to achieve, in terms of physical training and bodily development/performance. Situated within a growing body of literature analysing the impact of new...