Given the importance of sex assignment in Western culture, this body is always already a gendered body. However, what the assignment of sex means for bodies is changing and …

Feb 13, 2020 · 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 …

The book critiques how gendered bodies are constructed within mainstream health and fitness discourses. Healthism promotes individual responsibility for health, obscuring systemic …

Feb 1, 2009 · 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 …

"In this critical cultural expose, Dworkin and Wachs peel back the surface layers of the health and fitness craze and reveal a festering, discomfiting malaise about gender and sexuality.

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...

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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 …

Gender, consumer culture, and convergence -- Size matters : male body panic and the third wave "crisis of masculinity" -- "Getting your body back" : postindustrial fit motherhood and the …

They dissect the images, the workouts, and the ideology being sold, as well as the contemporary links among health, morality, citizenship, and identity that can be read on these pages.