{"product_id":"body-panic-gender-health-and-the-selling-of-fitness-hardback-9780814719671","title":"Body Panic; Gender, Health, and the Selling of Fitness (Hardback) 9780814719671","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBody Panic\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGender, Health, and the Selling of Fitness\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eShari L. Dworkin (Author), Faye Linda Wachs (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780814719671\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 February 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e235 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.3 x 2 cm, 0.512 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Body Panic is an interesting, careful, and timely book, and my guess is that it will be a valuable source for anyone interested in the sport-body-gender nexus for years to come.\" - Kevin Young (American Journal of Sociology) \"A terrific critique of the ways that the media create and then sell the desire for perfect (but different) bodies to men and women. Dworkin and Wachs beautifully weave gender theory with empirical analyses of consumer culture for a very readable study.\" - Judith Lorber,author of Gendered Bodies: Feminist Perspectives and Breaking the Bowls: Degendering and Feminist Change \"Dworkin and Wachs have produced the best analysis we have of this crucial moment in the history of sports and gender. They combine real rigor with wit and perceptiveness in a book that will become a standard reference for years to come.\" - Toby Miller,author of SportSex \"In this critical cultural expose, Dworkin and Wachs peel back the surface layers of the health and fitness craze and reveal a festering, discomfiting malaise about gender and sexuality. If the old feminist slogan, 'Our Bodies, Ourselves' helped women regain control over their bodies, Dworkin and Sachs suggest a new slogan, 'Our Bodies, Our Culture.' For only when we see how our bodies have been taken from us, repackaged and returned as deformed and puny, can we see that we've been sold dis-ease and discomfort in the guise of health and fitness.\" - Michael Kimmel,author of The Gendered Society and editor, Men and Masculinities \"\u003cb\u003eBody Panic\u003c\/b\u003e is an excellent media analysis for those interested in gender, cultural, or media studies. . .a book detailing the complex interplay of media message about health in relation to gender, race, class, and sexuality is a welcome addition to the ongoing dialogue on health and fitness.\" (Sex Roles)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDworkin and Wachs analyze 10 years of health and fitness magazines to uncover how bodies are made in popular culture\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003cb\u003eBody Panic\u003c\/b\u003e, 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?\u003cbr\u003e 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, \u003cb\u003eBody Panic\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"NYU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52563818053912,"sku":"9780814719671","price":53.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/body-panic-gender-health-and-the-selling-of-fitness-hardback-9780814719671","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}