Fit for Consumption : Sociology and the Business of Fitness.
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TextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2007Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (252 pages)Content type: - text
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- 9780203940655
- 613.71
Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Appendix: Suggested research tasks for students -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
This is the first book to offer a comprehensive socio-cultural and historical analysis of the current fitness culture. Combining observations in health clubs, interviews with fitness producers and consumers, and a discourse analysis of a wide variety of fitness texts, Fit for Consumption provides an empirically grounded examination of one of the pressing theoretical questions of our time: how individuals learn to fit into consumer culture and the service economy; how our bodies and selves become 'fit for consumption'.
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