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Body Panic Gender, Health, and the Selling of Fitness

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ISBN-10: 0814719686

ISBN-13: 9780814719688

Edition: 2009

Authors: Shari L. Dworkin, Faye Linda Wachs, Shari L. Dworkin, Faye Linda Wachs

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Increasingly the public is being sold a fitness idea - not just slim, but toned - that is difficult to attain. This book asks why.
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Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 2/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 235
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English

Shari L. Dworkin is Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing. She is the author or editor of several books, most recently Body Panic: Gender, Health, and the Selling of Fitness  and Men at Risk , both with NYU Press.

Acknowledgments
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 Consumption Imperative
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors