Fit for Consumption: Sociology and the Business of Fitness

ISBN-13: 9780415421805 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 252 str.

Smith; Jennifer Smith Maguire

Opis

Offers a comprehensive socio-cultural and historical analysis of the fitness culture. This title conceptualizes fitness as a field within which individuals and institutions may negotiate - if not altogether reconcile - the competing and often conflicting social demands made on the individual body that characterize our era.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Jennifer Smith Maguire