Body panic gender, health, and the selling of fitness /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dworkin, Shari L.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Wachs, Faye Linda
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, c2009.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of 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.