Ben Agger

Body Problems

Running and Living Long in a Fast-Food Society

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Produktbeschreibung

Body Problems addresses the relationship between the body and society in a fast-food culture. This second edition has been updated to include new chapters on food capitalism and alternative ways in which people may take back control over their bodies, health, and well-being in an over-rationalized and bureaucratized society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 88
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 253mm x 180mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 211g
• ISBN-13: 9781138658752
• ISBN-10: 1138658758
• Artikelnr.: 52336578

Autorenporträt

Ben Agger (1952-2015) was Professor of Sociology and Humanities and Director of the Center for Theory at the University of Texas at Arlington. Among his last published books were Texting Toward Utopia: Kids, Writing, and Resistance (2013) and Oversharing: Presentations of Self in the Internet Age (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: What's a Body to Do? (Scott McNall) 1. There was no Body
Problem Until Modernity: Descartes, Henry Ford, Corn Syrup Highways 2. Too
Much of a Good Thing, and the Invention of Exercise 3. Body Sciences 4.
Body Industries 5. Beyond Industries 6. Food Fights: The Contested Terrain
of the American Dinner Plate 7. Vegans Who Run