Body panic
Subtitle: gender, health, and the selling of fitness
By: Shari L. Dworkin and Faye Linda Wachs.
Contributors: Wachs, Faye Linda.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780814719671; 9780814719688
Subjects: 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 -- United States; Advertising as Topic -- trends -- United States; Culture -- United States; Gender Identity -- United States; Periodicals as Topic -- United States; Physical Fitness -- psychology -- United States
Genres: Periodicals.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The nature of body panic culture; title: What kinds of subjects and objects? gender, consumer culture, and convergence; title: Size matters : male body panic and the "third wave" crisis of masculinity; title: "Getting your body back" : post-industrial fit motherhood and the merger of the second and third shifts; title: From women's sports and fitness to self : third wave feminism and the consumption conundrum; title: Emancipatory potential, social justice, and the consumptive imperative.