1st Edition
Fit for Consumption Sociology and the Business of Fitness
By Jennifer Smith Maguire
Copyright 2008
256 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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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 -... Read more
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
Biography
Jennifer Smith Maguire
"Fitness culture is contradictory, this is what Maguire has demonstrated, and this makes her book a work of high value" Henning Eichberg
