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Body panic : gender, health, and the selling of fitness / Shari L. Dworkin and Faye Linda Wachs.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : New York University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: viii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0814719678
  • 9780814719671
  • 0814719686
  • 9780814719688
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.4613 23
LOC classification:
  • BF697.5.B63 D86 2009
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-217) and index.

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.

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