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

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 Li...

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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 : New York University Press, ©2009.
Colección:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The nature of body panic culture
  • What kinds of subjects and objects? Gender, consumer culture, and convergence
  • Size matters : male body panic and the third wave "crisis of masculinity"
  • "Getting your body back" : postindustrial fit motherhood and the merger of the second (household labor/child care) and third (fitness) shifts
  • From Women's sports & fitness to Self : third wave feminism and the consumption conundrum
  • Emancipatory potential, social justice, and the consumptive imperative.