Body Panic: Gender, Health, and the Selling of Fitness Tapa blanda - 2009

NYU Press. Used - Like New. Fine. Paperback. 2009. Originally published at $27.

NYU Press. New. Fine. Paperback. 2009. Originally published at $27.

NYU Press, 2009. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Are you ripped? Do you need to work on your abs? Do you know your ideal bod y weight? Your body fat index? Increasingly, Americans are being sold on a fitness ideal not just thin but toned, not just muscular but cut that is ha rder and harder to reach. In Body Panic, Shari L. Dworkin and Faye Linda Wa chs ask why. How did these particular body types come to be fit ? And how is it that having an unfit, or bad, body gets conflated with being an unf it, or bad, citizen? Dworkin and Wachs head to the newsstand for this study, examining ten years worth of men s and women s health and fitness magazines to determine the ways in which bodies are made in today s culture. They dissect the images, the workouts, and the ideology being sold, as well as the contemporary links among health, morality, citizenship, and identity that… Leer más

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