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

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

Book Overview

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"