Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
1 Introducing the Hardcore Masculine Ideal: The Spornosexual Star
2 Research Methodology
3 Inclusive and Orthodox Masculinities: Multiplicity Versus Reification
4 Individualization and Community Converge: The Gym as Facilitator of the Spornosexual Ideal
5 The Bigger the Muscles, the Better the Masculinity: Muscularity as Precondition for Masculinity
6 Homosociality, Homohysteria and the Gym
7 Sharing Spornosexual Imagery: Mediating the Sporno Ideal Through Gym Work
8 Two Sides of the Same Bicep? Problematizing the "Hard-Soft" Simile