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Title Statement Women and exercise : the body, health and consumerism
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Exercise for women is a heavily-laden social and embodied experience. While exercise promotion has become an increasingly visible part of health campaigns, obesity among women is rising, and studies indicate that women are generally less physically active than men. Women's (lack of) exercise, therefore, has become a public concern, and physiological and psychological research has attempted to develop more effective exercise programs aimed at women. Yet women have a complex relationship with embodiment and physical activity that is difficult for quantitative scientific approaches to explore. This book addresses this neglect by providing a much-needed feminist, qualitative social analysis of women and exercise. The contributors, drawn from across Europe and North America, investigate the ways women experience exercise within the context of the global fitness industry. All the authors take a specifically feminist perspective in their analysis of the fit, feminine body, exploring media images and the global branding of fitness products, the relationship between exercise and fat, the construction of physical activity within health discourse, and the lived experience of the exercising body. The collection explores the diversity of women's experiences of exercise in relation to age, ethnicity and body size. The book is essential for anyone interested in health promotion, sport and exercise or the social and cultural study of gender and embodiment.
Acknowledgments p. vii Introduction: Beyond Binaries: Contemporary Approaches to Women and Exercise p. 1 The Business of Exercise: Selling and Consuming Fitness p. 27 Love Your Body? The Discursive Construction of Exercise in Women's Lifestyle and Fitness Magazines p. 29 Women Developing and Branding Fitness Products on the Global Market: The Method Putkisto Case p. 44 'Folding': A Feminist Intervention in Mindful Fitness p. 60 Body Trouble: Fat Women and Exercise p. 79 Fit, Fat and Feminine? The Stigmatization of Fat Women in Fitness Gyms p. 81 I Am (Not) Big ... It's the Pictures that Got Small: Examining Cultural and Personal Exercise Narratives and the Fear of Fat p. 101 Large Women's Experiences of Exercise p. 121 Obesity, Body Pedagogies and Young Women's Engagement with Exercise p. 138 In the Name of Health: Women's Exercise and Public Health p. 159 The Significance of Western Health Promotion Discourse for Older Women from Diverse Ethnic Backgrounds p. 161 Growing Old (Dis)Gracefully? The Gender/Aging/ Exercise Nexus p. 180 ôDoing Something That's Good for Meö: Exploring Intersections of Physical Activity and Health p. 197 Lived Body Experiences: Exercise, Embodiment and Performance p. 227 The New 'Superwoman': Intersections of Fitness, Physical Culture and the Female Body in Romania p. 229 Keep Your Clothes On! Fit and Sexy Through Striptease Aerobics p. 247 Becoming Aware of Gendered Embodiment: Female Beginners Learning Aikido p. 266 Running Embodiment, Power and Vulnerability: Notes Toward a Feminist Phenomenology of Female Running p. 280 Contributors p. 299 Index p. 306