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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
©2009.
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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.