Body Panic

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Body Panic: Gender, Health and the Selling of Fitness
Shari L Dworkin and Faye Linda Wachs
Are you ripped? Do you need to work on your abs? Do you know your ideal body weight? Your body fat index? Increasingly, Americans are being sold on a fitness ideal - not just thin but toned, not just muscular but cut - that is harder and harder to reach. In Body Panic, Shari L Dworkin and Faye Linda Wachs ask why. How did these particular body types come to be fit? And how is it that having an unfit, or bad, body gets conflated with being an unfit, or bad, a citizen?
Pbk  272pp   9780814719688  A$47.95  NZ$61   2009.01