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Author Dworkin, Shari L.

Title Body panic : gender, health, and the selling of fitness / Shari L. Dworkin and Faye Linda Wachs
Published New York : New York University Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description viii, 225 pages : illustrations
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" : post-industrial fit motherhood and the merger of the second and third shifts -- From women's sports and fitness to self : third wave feminism and the consumption conundrum -- Emancipatory potential, social justice, and the consumptive imperative
Summary "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 to the newsstand for this study, examining ten years worth of mens and womens health and fitness magazines to determine the ways in which bodies are made in todays 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 can be read on these pages. While women and body image are often studied together, Body Panic considers both womens and mens bodies side-by-side and over time in order to offer a more in-depth understanding of this pervasive cultural trend."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Body image -- United States.
Advertising, Magazine -- United States.
Culture -- United States.
Gender identity -- United States.
Physical fitness -- United States -- Periodicals.
Exercise -- Psychological aspects.
Body Image.
Advertising as Topic -- trends.
Culture.
Gender Identity.
Periodicals as Topic.
Physical Fitness -- psychology.
SUBJECT United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Genre/Form Periodicals.
Author Wachs, Faye Linda.
LC no. 2008038249
ISBN 9780814719688 pb alkaline paper
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