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1. Women and Exercise

   The Body, Health and Consumerism

   Edited by Eileen Kennedy, Pirkko Markula

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   Exercise for women is a heavily-laden social and embodied experience. While exercise promotion has become an increasingly visible part of health campaigns, obesity among women is rising, and studies indicate that women are generally less physically active than men. Women’s (lack of) exercise,...

   Published November 29th 2010 by Routledge
2. Foucault, Sport and Exercise

   Power, Knowledge and Transforming the Self

   By Pirkko Markula-Denison, Richard Pringle

   Michel Foucault’s work profoundly influences the way we think about society, in particular how we understand social power, the self, and the body. This book gives an innovative and entirely new analysis of is later works making it a one-stop guide for students, exploring how Foucauldian theory can...

   Published September 12th 2006 by Routledge