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Muscle Works
Physical Culture and the Performance of Masculinity
First published 2024
What the critics said
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Building a Real Man
The Incredible Hulk, the Thing, He-Man, Superman—these cartoon heroes must fulfill some kind of longing. And as yearnings go, it’s an old one: the Hebrew tradition has Samson, the Greek Heracles, the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf, the Irish Cú Chulainn. Every culture has its dreams of superhuman strength…
Gavin Francis
Also reviews When Fitness Went Global by Conor Heffernan and A Genealogy of Male Bodybuilding by Dimitris Liokaftos
Subjects
Catalogue record
- Author
- Chow, Broderick D. V.
- Statement
- Muscle Works : Physical Culture and the Performance of Masculinity / Broderick D. V. Chow.
Book facts
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press, 2024
- ISBN
- 978-0-8101-4736-2
1 more ISBN
- 978-0-8101-4737-9
- Editions
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2 English editions
- Northwestern University Press, 2024 978-0-8101-4737-9
- Northwestern University Press, 2024 978-0-8101-4736-2
- Records
- Open Library