Introducing a sociology of snowboarding bodies --;Remembering the snowboarding body --;Producing and consuming the snowboarding body --;Representing the boarding body: disclosure, power, and the snowboarding media --;Cultural boarding bodies: status, style, and symbolic capital --;Female boarding bodies: betties, babes, and bad-asses --;Male boarding bodies: pleasure, pain, and performance --;Transnational boarding bodies: travel, tourism, and lifestyle sport migration --;Sensual snowboarding bodies in affective spaces --;Body politics, social change, and the future of physical cultural studies.
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This book provides the first in-depth analysis of the global phenomenon of snowboarding culture. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, it offers key insights into the sport, lifestyle, industry, media, gender relations, travel, and physical experience of snowboarding, in both historical and contemporary contexts.