Consumption and Public Life / Fitness Culture
Gyms and the Commercialisation of Discipline and Fun
(Sprache: Englisch)
This book provides a sociological perspective on fitness culture as developed in commercial gyms, investigating the cultural relevance of gyms in terms of the history of the commercialization of body discipline, the negotiation of gender identities and...
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This book provides a sociological perspective on fitness culture as developed in commercial gyms, investigating the cultural relevance of gyms in terms of the history of the commercialization of body discipline, the negotiation of gender identities and distinction dynamics within contemporary cultures of consumption.
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Introduction Fitness Culture, Fit Bodies and the Ethnography of the Gym The Cultural Location of Fitness Gyms Spatiality and Temporality Interaction and Relational Codes Framing Fitness Discipline and Fun The Culture of the Fit Body Fit Bodies, Strong Selves Conclusions: Embodiment, Agency and Consumer Culture References Index
Autoren-Porträt von Roberta Sassatelli
ROBERTA SASSATELLI is Associate Professor of Cultural Sociology, Department of Social and Political Studies at the University of Milan, Italy. She has published widely on consumer culture and the sociology of the body and cultural theory. Her most recent publication in English is Consumer Culture: History, Theory and Politics.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Roberta Sassatelli
- 2010, 2010, 236 Seiten, Maße: 13,9 x 21,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Macmillan Education
- ISBN-10: 1137464879
- ISBN-13: 9781137464873
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"This engaging exploration of what sustains gym membership as a consumer practice will be of interest to scholars of studies of consumption, the body, leisure and health." - CHOICE Review "Rejecting cultural dupe models, so prevalent in consumerist analyses of fitness, Sassatelli provides a comprehensive analysis of the range of complicated and sometimes contradictory meanings that participants use to understand their continued participation in a commodified fitness culture." - Journal of Consumer Culture
"Sassatelli has written a great book which will be of wide interest and value to scholars of both embodiment and consumption as well as to the narrower fraternity of 'gym researchers.'" - SocioLogica
"An important contribution to contemporary thought on consumer culture." - Journal of Sociology
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