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Working out in Japan : shaping the female body in Tokyo fitness clubs / Laura Spielvogel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spielvogel, Laura, 1970-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physical fitness for women--Social aspects--Japan.
- Physical fitness for women.
- Physical fitness centers--Japan--Tokyo.
- Physical fitness centers.
- Body image--Japan.
- Body image.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An ethnography of fitness clubs, aerobics, body image, and diet for women in contemporary Japan.
- Contents:
- The history of aerobics in Japan
- The sexy American import
- The discipline of space
- The discipline of bodies
- Cigarettes and aerobics: frustrations with gender inequities in the club
- Young, proportionate, leggy, and thin: the ideal female body
- Selfishly skinny or selflessly starving.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-241) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612920783
- 9781282920781
- 1282920782
- 9780822384809
- 0822384809
- OCLC:
- 850219173
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