Laura Spielvogel

Working Out in Japan

Shaping the Female Body in Tokyo Fitness Clubs

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Produktbeschreibung

""Working Out in Japan" is a theoretically sophisticated analysis informed by wide reading and well-grounded in the author's extensive experience as a fitness instructor."--Allen Guttmann, coauthor of "Japanese Sports: A History"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780822330493
• ISBN-10: 0822330490
• Artikelnr.: 21880869

Autorenporträt

Laura Spielvogel is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Western Michigan University.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1. The History of Aerobics in Japan: The Sexy American Import 33
2. The Discipline of Space 61
3. The Discipline of Bodies 85
4. Cigarettes and Aerobics: Frustrations with Gender Inequities in the Club
115
5. Young, Proportionate, Leggy, and Thin: The Ideal Female Body 142
6. Selfishly Skinny or Selflessly Starving 174
Conclusions 207
Notes 215
Bibliography 227
Index 243