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.
| Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Copy |
|---|
| IIEMSA | General Books | 33168025434628 | 306.4613 D993B 2009 | 1 |