Fit for Consumption

Sociology and the Business of Fitness. Sprachen: Englisch. 24,0 cm / 16,1 cm / 1,8 cm ( B/H/T )
EAN 9780415421805
266,30 €
inkl. MwSt.
256 Seiten
September 2007
Routledge

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 made on the individual body that characterize our current era.
Intended for researchers and senior undergraduate and postgraduate students of sport, leisure, cultural studies and the body, this book utilizes the US fitness field as a case study through which to explore the place of the body in contemporary consumer culture. Combining observations in health clubs, interviews with fitness producers and consumers, and a discourse analysis of a wide variety of fitness texts, this book 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 and how our bodies and selves become 'fit for consumption.'

Jennifer Smith Maguire

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

Das könnte Sie auch interessieren

Klaus-Peter Wolf
Ein mörderisches Paar - Der Verdacht
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
€ 10,99
Klaus-Peter Wolf
Ein mörderisches Paar - Der Sturz
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
€ 10,99
Klaus-Peter Wolf
Ein mörderisches Paar - Das Versprechen
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
€ 10,99
W. Timothy Gallwey
Tennis - Das innere Spiel
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
€ 11,99
Lea Feder
Dein Zyklus, dein Training
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
€ 15,99
Carsten Stark
Füße gut, alles gut
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
€ 12,99
Anne Haug
Ironmade
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
€ 15,99
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
€ 4,99
Cat Hicks
The Psychology of Software Teams
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
€ 26,99
Ronald Reng
Der Traumhüter
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
€ 8,99
Britta Brechtefeld
50 Workouts - Pilates
eBook (pdf)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
€ 9,99
Florian Maria Alfen
Der Rückenoperateur, der sich nicht selbst ...
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
€ 19,99
Anne Dittmann
Jungs von heute, Männer von morgen
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
€ 14,99
Boris Herrmann
Allein zwischen Himmel und Meer
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
€ 12,99
Oliver Hilmes
Berlin 1936
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
€ 9,99
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
€ 29,99
Ingo Froböse
Bandscheiben-Akut-Training
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
€ 13,99
Angela Duckworth
GRIT - Die neue Formel zum Erfolg
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
€ 9,99
Evan Osnos
Yacht oder nicht Yacht
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
€ 17,99
Gabi Fastner
50 Workouts - Morgengymnastik
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
€ 9,99
Daniel James Brown
Das Wunder von Berlin
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
€ 4,99
Poorna Bell
Stronger
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
€ 14,99
Wim Luijpers
Nie wieder Rückengymnastik
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
€ 15,99
Sebastian Vollmer
What it takes
eBook (pdf)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
€ 15,99
Joshua Clark
Fit ohne Geräte
eBook (pdf)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
€ 12,99
Thorsten Tschirner
50 Workouts für starke Bauchmuskeln
eBook (pdf)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
€ 9,99
Katja Brandis
Ruf der Tiefe
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
€ 10,99
Ingo Froböse
Das 5x5-Prinzip
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
€ 22,99
Lukas Wörle
Gratwanderung
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
€ 20,99
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
€ 11,99
Nils Petersen
Bank-Geheimnis
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
€ 13,99
Thorsten Tschirner
Mit 50 beweglicher als mit 30
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
€ 15,99
Greg Everett
Olympisches Gewichtheben
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
€ 2,99
Jonathan Clegg
Messi vs. Ronaldo
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
€ 12,99
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
€ 9,99
Ingo Froböse
Das Muskel-Workout
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
€ 14,99