2nd Edition
Body Problems Running and Living Long in a Fast-Food Society
By Ben Agger
Copyright 2020
106 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
106 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
106 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Body Problems addresses the relationship between the body and society in a fast-food culture. Agger focuses on issues of food, exercise, work, dieting and eating disorders, fashion, bariatric and cosmetic surgery, and health. He addresses a growing, fundamental dilemma that we have ample access to abundant calories yet lead lifestyles and have jobs that for the most part do not enable us to... Read more
Introduction by Scott G. McNall, University of Montana
- There was no Body Problem Until Modernity: Descartes, Henry Ford, Corn Syrup Highways
- Too Much of a Good Thing, and the Invention of Exercise
- Body Sciences
- Body Industries
- Beyond Body Work
- Food Fights: The Contested Terrain of the American Dinner Plate
- Vegans Who Run
References
Glossary/Index
Biography
Ben Agger (1952–2015) was Professor of Sociology and Humanities and Director of the Center for Theory at the University of Texas at Arlington. Among his last published books were Texting Toward Utopia: Kids, Writing, and Resistance (2013) and Oversharing: Presentations of Self in the Internet Age (2012).
