Women and exercise : the body, health and consumerism /

Women and exercise : the body, health and consumerism / edited by Eileen Kennedy and Pirkko Markula. - vi, 308 pages ; 24 cm. - Routledge research in sport, culture, and society ; 5 . - Routledge research in sport, culture and society ; 5. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Beyond binaries: contemporary approaches to women and exercise / Pirkko Markula, Eileen Kennedy -- Love your body? The discursive construction of exercise in women's lifestyle and fitness magazines / Eileen Kennedy, Evdokia Pappa -- Women developing and branding fitness products on the global market: the Method Putkisto case / Jaana Parviainen -- 'Folding': a feminist intervention in mindful fitness / Pirkko Markula -- Fit, fat and feminine? The stigmatization of fat women in fitness gyms / Louise Mansfield -- I am (not) big ... it's the pictures that got small: examining cultural and personal exercise narratives and the fear of fat / Kerry R. McGannon, Christina R. Johnson, John C. Spence -- Large women's experiences of exercise / Karen Synne Groven, Kari Nyheim Solbrække, Gunn Engelsrud -- Obesity, body pedagogies and young women's engagement with exercise / Emma Rich, John Evans, Laura De Pian -- The significance of western health promotion discourse for older women from diverse ethnic backgrounds / Sharon Wray-- Growing old (dis)gracefully? The gender/aging/exercise nexus / Elizabeth C. J. Pike -- "Doing something that's good for me": Exploring Intersections of physical activity and health / Lisa McDermott -- The new 'superwoman:' intersections of fitness, physical culture, and the female body in Romania / Jessica W. Chin -- Keep your clothes on! Fit and sexy through striptease aerobics / Magdalena Petersson McIntyre -- Becoming aware of gendered embodiment: female beginners learning Aikido / Paula Lökman -- Running embodiment, power and vulnerability: notes toward a feminist phenomenology of female running / Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson.

0415871204 9780415871204

2010020097


Exercise for women.
Women in mass media
Women--Health and hygiene

GV482 / .W66 2011

613.7045

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