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Body Panic Gender, Health, and the Selling of Fitness

Paperback • 2009 • English

Body Panic Gender, Health, and the Selling of Fitness

By Shari L. Dworkin, Faye Linda Wachs

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About the book

Are you ripped? Do you need to work on your abs? Do you know your ideal body 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 harder and harder to reach. In Body Panic, Shari L. Dworkin and Faye Linda Wachs 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 unfit, or "bad," citizen?Dworkin and Wachs head t...Show more

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9780814719688

Publisher

NYU Press

Published year

2009

Language

English

Original title

Body Panic Gender, Health, and the Selling of Fitness

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Paperback

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