Biopolitics and the repressive hypothesis of the body: the case of swimming training in Finland

Elina Vaahtera

doi:10.1080/15017419.2015.1063538

Biopolitics and the repressive hypothesis of the body: the case of swimming training in Finland

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

Volume 18 (2016): Issue 2

By: Elina Vaahtera

Open Access

|Jul 2016

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