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Body Panic: Gender, Health, and the Selling of Fitness
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 Lind... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
No Slam Dunk: Gender, Sport and the Unevenness of Social Change (Critical Issues in Sport and Society)
by Cheryl Cooky • Professor Michael A. Messner • Michela Musto • Lauren Rauscher • Marko Begovic • Carole Oglesby • Don Sabo • Marjorie Snyder • Suzel Bozada-Deas • Shari Dworkin • Ranissa Dycus • Faye Linda WachsIn just a few decades, sport has undergone a radical gender transformation. However, Cheryl Cooky and Michael A. Messner suggest that the progress toward gender equity in sports is far from complete. The continuing barriers to full and equal participation for young people, the far lower pay for most... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018