Kraftkarlar och knockouts : Kraftsporter, kropp och klass i Sverige 1920–1960

The thesis analyses representations of body and class, and their wider ideological meaning, in Swedish power sports from 1920 to 1960. Boxing and weightlifting – sports dominated by manual workers – are chosen as study objects. The sources used are magazines connected to the power sports, and autobi...

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Main Author: Pihl Skoog, Emma
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:Swedish
Published: Stockholms universitet, Historiska institutionen 2017
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