Tag: Broderick D.V. Chow
Archival and autoethnographic research has produced a readable and engaging book about strongmen then and now
In his new book Muscle Works: Physical Culture and the Performance of Masculinity (Northwestern University Press), Broderick Chow recounts the story of fitness culture from its beginnings as spectacles of strongmen, weightlifters, acrobats, and wrestlers to its legitimization in the twentieth-century in the form of competitive sports and health and wellness practices. Our reviewer is Claire Warden, and she is a knowledgeable and enthusiastic guide to Chow’s world of physical culture, historically and contemporarily.
