Women and exercise : the body, health and consumerism by Eileen Kennedy

By Eileen Kennedy

"Exercise for ladies is a heavily-laden social and embodied event. whereas workout merchandising has develop into an more and more seen a part of wellbeing and fitness campaigns, weight problems between ladies is emerging, and experiences point out that girls are often much less bodily lively than males. Women's (lack of) workout, hence, has develop into a public main issue, and physiological and mental examine has tried to increase extra effective Read more...

content material: past binaries: modern techniques to girls and workout / Pirkko Markula, Eileen Kennedy --
Love your physique? The discursive development of workout in women's way of life and health magazines / Eileen Kennedy, Evdokia Pappa --
girls constructing and branding health items at the international industry: the strategy Putkisto case / Jaana Parviainen --
'Folding': a feminist intervention in conscious health / Pirkko Markula --
healthy, fats and female? The stigmatization of fats ladies in health gyms / Louise Mansfield --
i'm (not) vast ... it is the images that obtained small: reading cultural and private workout narratives and the terror of fats / Kerry R. McGannon, Christina R. Johnson, John C. Spence --
huge women's stories of workout / Karen Synne Groven, Kari Nyheim Solbrække, Gunn Engelsrud --
weight problems, physique pedagogies and younger women's engagement with workout / Emma wealthy, John Evans, Laura De Pian --
the importance of western well-being promoting discourse for older ladies from assorted ethnic backgrounds / Sharon Wray--
growing older (dis)gracefully? The gender/aging/exercise nexus / Elizabeth C.J. Pike --
"Doing whatever that is reliable for me": Exploring Intersections of actual task and wellbeing and fitness / Lisa McDermott --
the recent 'superwoman:' intersections of health, actual tradition, and the feminine physique in Romania / Jessica W. Chin --
preserve your outfits on! healthy and attractive via striptease aerobics / Magdalena Petersson McIntyre --
changing into conscious of gendered embodiment: woman newcomers studying Aikido / Paula Lökman --
operating embodiment, energy and vulnerability: notes towards a feminist phenomenology of woman working / Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson.
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This slow movement of fitness activity can be seen as a part of a cultural trend that includes slow city (cittaslow), slow food and slow travel (Honoré 2004). A principal characteristic of the slow movement is that women look for physical exercise where they can enjoy the silence and tranquility of bodily movement. Focusing on movements in detail, they usually want to learn more about their bodies to develop tools for their well-being. One such fitness form is Method Putkisto (MP). K. and Finland.

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ALL-CONSUMING FITNESS An ideal self was assembled for the reader to identify with on the covers of the magazines, and exercise was presented as an easy means to step into that identity. However, inside the magazine, articles reminded the reader that this identity was out of reach. Instead, exercise was constructed as something ‘normal’ women did not do, and conflicting advice presented barriers to engaging in exercise. The articles no longer presented exercise as a simple step to an ideal self, but a minefield of anxiety and confusion.

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