Fit for Consumption Sociology and the Business of Fitness

Name: Fit for Consumption Sociology and the Business of Fitness
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ISBN: 9780415421812

ISBN-10: 0415421810

ISBN-13: 9780415421812

Edition: 2008

Authors: Jennifer Smith Maguire

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This is the firstnbsp;text to offer a comprehensive socio-cultural and historical analysis of the current fitness culture. Fitness today is not simply about health clubs and exercise classes, or measures of body mass index and cardiovascular endurance. Fit for Consumption conceptualizes fitness as a field within which individuals and institutions may negotiate - if not altogether reconcile - nbsp;the competing and often conflicting social demands made on the individual body that characterize our current era. Intended for researchers and senior undergraduate and postgraduate students of sport, leisure, cultural studies and the body, this book utilizes the US fitness field as a case study…

Book details

List price: $69.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 10/30/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 10
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.17" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.836



Illustrations


Acknowledgments



Making sense of fitness



The roots of fitness: physical culture and physical capital



Health clubs: the stratification of fitness sites



Fitness media: an education in the fitness lifestyle



Personal trainers: in the service of fitness



Lessons from the fitness field



Suggested research tasks for students


Notes


Bibliography


Index