Body Panic : Gender, Health, and the Selling of Fitness /

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Are you ripped? Do you need to work on your abs? Do you know your ideal body weight? Your body fat index? Increasingly, Americans are being sold on a fitness ideal - not just thin but toned, not just muscular but cut - that is harder and harder to reach. In Body Panic, Shari L. Dworkin and Faye Lind...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Dworkin, Shari L. (Autor), Wachs, Faye Linda (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2009]
Temas:
Advertising, Magazine > United States.
Body image > United States.
Culture.
Exercise > Psychological aspects.
Gender identity > United States.
Physical fitness > United States > Periodicals.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies.
Considers.
Dworkin.
Faye.
Linda.
Shari.
Wachs.
bodies.
body.
both.
come.
cultural.
fit.
in-depth.
mens.
more.
offer.
order.
over.
particular.
pervasive.
side-by-side.
this.
time.
trend.
types.
understanding.
womens.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 The Nature of Body Panic Culture
  • 2 What Kinds of Subjects and Objects?
  • 3 Size Matters
  • 4 "Getting Your Body Back"
  • 5 From Women's Sports & Fitness to Self
  • 6 Emancipatory Potential, Social Justice, and the Consumption Imperative
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Authors

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