Fit for Consumption: Sociology and the Business of Fitness

by Jennifer Smith Maguire

Book Overview

This is the first text to offer a comprehensive socio-cultural and historical analysis of the current fitness culture.

Fitness today is not simply about health clubs and exercise classes, or measures of body mass index and cardiovascular endurance. Fit for Consumption conceptualizes fitness as a field within which individuals and institutions may negotiate - if not altogether reconcile - the competing and often conflicting social demands...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415421810
• ISBN13: 9780415421812
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 10 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"