Body Panic: Gender, Health, and the Selling of Fitness

by Faye Wachs, Shari L. Dworkin, Faye Linda Wachs

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0814719686

ISBN13:9780814719688

Release Date:February 2009

Publisher:New York University Press

Length:235 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Related Subjects

Communication & Journalism Communication & Media Studies Gender Studies Media Studies Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Sociology

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