Fit for two? A critical discourse analysis of Oxygen fitness magazine
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The representations of pregnancy, fitness and health in 'Fit for Two', a tips column for new and expectant mothers in "Oxygen" magazine are examined using Foucault's notions of disciplinary power and biopower. 'Fit for Two' column acts as a strategy for ensuring the health of the mother and child by illustrating the manner in which women's health remains a form of biopower and their fitness part of the apparatus of modern day governmentality.
Publication Name: Sociology of Sport Journal
Subject: Sports and fitness
ISSN: 0741-1235
Year: 2006
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Fit and flexible: the fitness industry, personal trainers and emotional service labor
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This article examines how fitness is sold in the United States. The author, focusing on the practice of personal trainers, argues health and fitness is turned into a commodity by trainers who emulate the importance of physical appearance, but not the inner self.
Publication Name: Sociology of Sport Journal
Subject: Sports and fitness
ISSN: 0741-1235
Year: 2001
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Steve Prefontaine: from rebel with a cause to hero with a swoosh
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Media accounts of Steve Prefontaine are explored using a critical cultural studies approach. Prefontaine served as an ideal of White working-class masculinity and as a voice calling for structural changes to the track and field governing body.
Publication Name: Sociology of Sport Journal
Subject: Sports and fitness
ISSN: 0741-1235
Year: 2004
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