Jennifer Smith Maguire

Fit for Consumption (eBook, ePUB)

Sociology and the Business of Fitness

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive socio-cultural and historical analysis of the current fitness culture. Combining observations in health clubs, interviews with fitness producers and consumers, and a discourse analysis of a wide variety of fitness texts, Fit for Consumption provides an empirically grounded examination of one of the pressing theoretical questions of our time: how individuals learn to fit into consumer culture and the service economy; how our bodies and selves become 'fit for consumption'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134102099
• Artikelnr.: 38450668

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Smith Maguire

Inhaltsangabe

1. Making Sense of Fitness 2. The Roots of Fitness: Physical Culture and
Physical Capital 3. Health Clubs: The Stratification of Fitness Sites 4.
Fitness Media: An Education in the Fitness Lifestyle 5. Personal Trainers:
In the Service of Fitness 6. Lessons from the Fitness Field