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

• Main Authors: Dworkin, Shari L. (Author), Wachs, Faye Linda (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York : New York University Press, c2009
• Subjects: body image > Spojené státy americké; fyzický vzhled člověka > Spojené státy americké; gender > Spojené státy americké; sexuální identita > Spojené státy americké; tělesná kondice > Spojené státy americké; reklamní média > Spojené státy americké; kultura > Spojené státy americké; časopisy > Spojené státy americké; sociologie tělesné kultury; body image > United States; gender > United States; sexual identity > United States; physical fitness > United States; physical health > United States; advertising media > United States; culture > United States; journals > United States; sociology of physical culture; studie; studies
• ISBN: 9780814719688
• Physical Description: viii, 227 s. : il. ; 23 cm

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