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Body Panic - Gender, Health, and the Selling of Fitness (Paperback)
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Body Panic - Gender, Health, and the Selling of Fitness (Paperback)
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Dworkin and Wachs analyze 10 years of health and fitness magazines
to uncover how bodies are made in popular culture 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 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 can be read on these
pages. While women and body image are often studied together, Body
Panic considers both women's and men's bodies side-by-side and over
time in order to offer a more in-depth understanding of this
pervasive cultural trend.
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