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Arto Thonen

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Asthma - The Construction of the Masculine Body

1994

This article focuses on understanding the social construction of male identity in Finland in the 1960s and 1970s. Sporting experiences of the author are used as material for memory-work (Erinnerungsarbeit), the key experience here being illness (Asthma). By writing through it, the author thematizes the healthy, sporting, and disciplined body inscribed in hegemonic masculinity.

Male identitySociology and Political Science05 social sciencesGender studies030229 sport sciencesSocial constructionismKey (music)03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicine0502 economics and businessSociology050212 sport leisure & tourismSocial Sciences (miscellaneous)Hegemonic masculinityInscribed figureInternational Review for the Sociology of Sport
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