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Body panic : gender, health, and the selling of fitness
- Title
- Body panic : gender, health, and the selling of fitness / Shari L. Dworkin and Faye Linda Wachs.
- Author
- Dworkin, Shari L.
- Publication
- New York : New York University Press, c2009.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Wachs, Faye Linda.
- Description
- viii, 227 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Physical Fitness > psychology > United States
- Advertising as Topic > trends > United States
- Periodicals as Topic > United States
- Body image > United States
- Exercise > Psychological aspects
- Physical fitness > United States > Periodicals
- Culture > United States
- Advertising, Magazine > United States
- Gender Identity > United States
- Gender identity > United States
- Body Image > United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-217) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 09-158
- ISBN
- 9780814719671 (cl : alk. paper)
- 0814719678 (cl : alk. paper)
- 9780814719688 (pb : alk. paper)
- 0814719686 (pb : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008038249
- OCLC
- 245512249
- Author
- Dworkin, Shari L.
- Title
- Body panic : gender, health, and the selling of fitness / Shari L. Dworkin and Faye Linda Wachs.
- Imprint
- New York : New York University Press, c2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-217) and index.
- Added Author
- Wachs, Faye Linda.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 09-158