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Body panic : gender, health, and the selling of fitness /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dworkin, Shari L.
Other Authors: Wachs, Faye Linda
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2009]
Subjects:
Body image > United States.
Advertising, Magazine > United States.
Culture > United States.
Gender identity > United States.
Physical fitness > United States > Periodicals.
Exercise > Psychological aspects.
Body Image > United States.
Advertising as Topic > trends > United States.
Gender Identity > United States.
Periodicals as Topic > United States.
Physical Fitness > psychology > United States.
Table of 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.