Praise
“Based on the deepest form of participant observation, Hejtmanek’s ethnography of CrossFit has such vividness and immediacy that a reader can feel the effort and smell the sweat. She compellingly weaves together themes including cultural Christianity’s hegemonic influence, militarism and violent intensity, science and pseudo-science, masculinity andsuperheroes, salvation and the apocalypse, the frontier and libertarianism, heteronormative whiteness and garage capitalism.”
—Thomas J. Csordas, University of California San Diego
“In the author’s hands, the Crossfit gym becomes a valuable microcosm to show how such narratives and their attendant misogyny, ableism, and discrimination remain veiled but deeply rooted in American culture under the guise of self-improvement. It’s an astute and illuminating analysis.”
—Publishers Weekly
