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Body panic : gender, health, and the selling of fitness / Shari L. Dworkin and Faye Linda Wachs.
LIBRA BF697.5.B63 D86 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dworkin, Shari L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Body image--United States.
- Body image.
- Advertising, Magazine--United States.
- Advertising, Magazine.
- Culture--United States.
- Culture.
- Gender identity--United States.
- Gender identity.
- Physical fitness.
- United States.
- Physical fitness--United States--Periodicals.
- Exercise--Psychological aspects.
- Exercise.
- Body Image.
- Advertising--trends.
- Gender Identity.
- Periodicals as Topic.
- Physical Fitness--psychology.
- Medical Subjects:
- Body Image.
- United States.
- Advertising--trends.
- Culture.
- Gender Identity.
- Periodicals as Topic.
- Physical Fitness--psychology.
- Genre:
- Periodicals.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-217) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814719671
- 0814719678
- 9780814719688
- 0814719686
- OCLC:
- 245512249
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