Muscular India : masculinity, mobility & the new middle class / Michiel Baas.
By: Baas, Michiel [author.].
Publisher: Chennai : Context, 2020Description: 313 pages.ISBN: 9789389648218.Subject(s): Bodybuilding -- Social aspects -- India | Men -- India -- Identity | Middle class men -- India -- Social conditions | Body image -- Social aspects | Masculinity -- India | Middle class -- IndiaDDC classification: 613.7130954| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Michiel Baas has spent a decade studying gyms, trainers and bodybuilders, and finds in them a new way to investigate India. He walks us through the homes and workspaces of these men—yes, they are almost all men—to bodybuilding competitions and also into their most intimate worlds of ambitions, desires and struggles. An unusual study of an unusual subject, Baas unveils a fascinating world, hidden in plain sight
Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-301) and index.
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