Women and exercise : the body, health and consumerism / edited by Eileen Kennedy and Pirkko Markula.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kennedy, Eileen.

Markula, Pirkko, 1961-

Series:

Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

Routledge research in sport, culture and society ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Exercise for women.

Women in mass media.

Women--Health and hygiene.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (317 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Exercise for women is a heavily-laden social and embodied experience. While exercise promotion has become an increasingly visible part of health campaigns, obesity among women is rising, and studies indicate that women are generally less physically active than men. Women's (lack of) exercise, therefore, has become a public concern, and physiological and psychological research has attempted to develop more effective exercise programs aimed at women. Yet women have a complex relationship with embodiment and physical activity that is difficult for quantitative scientific approaches to explore.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Beyond Binaries: Contemporary Approaches to Women and Exercise; Part I: The Business of Exercise: Selling and Consuming Fitness; 1 Love Your Body?: The Discursive Construction of Exercise in Women's Lifestyle and Fitness Magazines; 2 Women Developing and Branding Fitness Products on the Global Market: The Method Putkisto Case; 3 'Folding': A Feminist Intervention in Mindful Fitness; Part II: Body Trouble: Fat Women and Exercise; 4 Fit, Fat and Feminine?: The Stigmatization of Fat Women in Fitness Gyms

5 I Am (Not) Big . . . It's the Pictures that Got Small: Examining Cultural and Personal Exercise Narratives and the Fear of Fat6 Large Women's Experiences of Exercise; 7 Obesity, Body Pedagogies and Young Women's Engagement with Exercise; Part III: In the Name of Health: Women's Exercise and Public Health; 8 The Significance of Western Health Promotion Discourse for Older Women from Diverse Ethnic Backgrounds; 9 Growing Old (Dis)Gracefully?: The Gender/Aging/Exercise Nexus; 10 "Doing Something That's Good For Me": Exploring Intersections of Physical Activity and Health

Part IV: Lived Body Experiences: Exercise, Embodiment and Performance11 The New 'Superwoman': Intersections of Fitness, Physical Culture and the Female Body in Romania; 12 Keep Your Clothes On!: Fit and Sexy Through Striptease Aerobics; 13 Becoming Aware of Gendered Embodiment: Female Beginners Learning Aikido; 14 Running Embodiment, Power and Vulnerability: Notes Toward a Feminist Phenomenology of Female Running; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-88368-1

1-136-88369-X

1-283-04345-9

9786613043450

0-203-83930-7

9780203839300

OCLC:

701703869