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Author Dworkin, Shari L.

Title Body panic [electronic resource] : gender, health, and the selling of fitness / Shari L. Dworkin and Faye Linda Wachs.

Imprint New York : New York University Press, c2009.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description viii, 227 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-217) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Body image -- United States.
Advertising, Magazine -- United States.
Culture -- United States.
Gender identity -- United States.
Physical fitness -- United States -- Periodicals.
Exercise -- Psychological aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Wachs, Faye Linda.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780814719671 (cl : alk. paper)
0814719678 (cl : alk. paper)
9780814719688 (pb : alk. paper)
0814719686 (pb : alk. paper)

 
    
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