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Fit for Consumption : Sociology and the Business of Fitness by Jennifer Smith Maguire (2007, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherTaylor & Francis Group

ISBN-100415421810

ISBN-139780415421812

eBay Product ID (ePID)61650669

Product Key Features

Number of Pages10 Pages

Publication NameFIT for Consumption : Sociology and the Business of Fitness

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2007

SubjectSociology of Sports, General

TypeTextbook

AuthorJennifer Smith Maguire

Subject AreaSports & Recreation, Health & Fitness

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight16.6 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.2 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2007-006493

Reviews"Fitness culture is contradictory, this is what Maguire has demonstrated, and this makes her book a work of high value" Henning Eichberg "...Smith is a renownded scholar and an expert in this area. This will be the leading book... about an exciting and current topic." Professor Gertrud Pfister, President of the International Sociology of Sport Association. "This is a timely text, given the sheer growht in private health club/gym provision. As yet, there is scant literature that provides a critique of these developments. Perhaps more than this, however, is the significance of an account that is critical and actively contextualises and conceptualises the 'fitness boom'." Dr Beccy Watson, Senior Lecturer in Leisure and Sport Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University.

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Table Of Content1. 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

SynopsisThis 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 - the competing and often conflicting social demands made on the individual body that characterize our current era. Intended for researchers and senior undergraduate and postgraduate students of sport, leisure, cultural studies and the body, this book utilizes the US fitness field as a case study through which to explore the place of the body in contemporary consumer culture. Combining observations in health clubs, interviews with fitness producers and consumers, and a discourse analysis of a wide variety of fitness texts, this book 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 and how our bodies and selves become 'fit for consumption.', 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'.

LC Classification NumberGV342.27.M34 2007