THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE BODY BY BODYBUILDING IN BRAZIL
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https://doi.org/10.22456/1982-8918.74985Keywords:
Human body. Doping in Sports. Sociology.Abstract
This article looks into the construction of the body by bodybuilding. It is a field study interviewing bodybuilders in North-eastern Brazil. Semi-structured Interviews were conducted with a sample of eight men and two women and underwent content analysis. The results allowed identifying various uses of bodybuilding regarding subjects’ past experiences with their bodies, modes commitment to the practice, and sex. If the suffering evoked to explain their commitment is individual, adherence to new standards of construction of the body takes place through a collective of people who lead to normalization of consumption of pharmacological substances.
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