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Fit for Consumption

Paperback • 2007 • English

Fit for Consumption

By Jennifer Smith Maguire

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About the book

This is the first 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 - the competing and often conflicting social demands made on the individual body that characterize our current...Show more

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ISBN

9780415421812

Publisher

Routledge

Published year

2007

Language

English

Original title

Fit for Consumption

Format

Paperback

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