Body panic : gender, health, and the selling of fitness
by
 
Dworkin, Shari L.

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

Author
Dworkin, Shari L.

ISBN
9780814719671
 
9780814719688

Personal Author
Dworkin, Shari L.

Publication Information
New York : New York University Press, c2009.

Physical Description
viii, 227 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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.

Subject Term
Body image -- United States.
 
Advertising, Magazine -- United States.
 
Culture -- United States.
 
Gender identity -- United States.
 
Physical fitness -- United States -- Periodicals.
 
Exercise -- Psychological aspects.

Added Author
Wachs, Faye Linda.


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