{"product_id":"fit-for-consumption-jennifer-smith-maguire-9780415421805","title":"Fit for Consumption: Sociology and the Business of Fitness","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the first text to offer a comprehensive socio-cultural and historical analysis of the current fitness culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFitness today is not simply about health clubs and exercise classes, or measures of body mass index and cardiovascular endurance. \u003cem\u003eFit for Consumption\u003c\/em\u003e conceptualizes fitness as a field within which individuals and institutions may negotiate - if not altogether reconcile - the competing and often conflicting social demands made on the individual body that characterize our current era. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntended for researchers and senior undergraduate and postgraduate students of sport, leisure, cultural studies and the body, this book utilizes the US fitness field as a case study through which to explore the place of the body in contemporary consumer culture. Combining observations in health clubs, interviews with fitness producers and consumers, and a discourse analysis of a wide variety of fitness texts, this book provides an empirically grounded examination of one of the pressing theoretical questions of our time: how individuals learn to fit into consumer culture and the service economy and how our bodies and selves become 'fit for consumption.' \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jennifer Smith Maguire\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415421802\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415421805\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 252\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.18lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d","brand":"Jennifer Smith Maguire","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48064917209343,"sku":"9780415421805","price":210.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e6719aa4-5176-437e-9a09-84b8afc71431.jpg?v=1768671907","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fit-for-consumption-jennifer-smith-maguire-9780415421805","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}