Screen LibraryThe age of fitness : how the body came to symbolize success and achievement /
"Why the pursuit of fitness has become a central preoccupation of modern life"--
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| Published: |
Polity Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, UK : |
| Publication Dates: | [2021] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: |
English German |
| Edition: | English edition. |
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| Summary: |
"Why the pursuit of fitness has become a central preoccupation of modern life"-- |
| Item Description: |
Originally published in German as 'Das Zeitalter der Fitness' by Fischer, 2019. Translated from German. |
| Carrier Form: | ix, 227 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [171]-221) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781509545636 (hardback : alkaline paper) : 1509545638 (hardback : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | BF697 |
| CLC: | Q983-05 |
| Call Number: | Q983-05/M387 |
| Contents: | Introduction: the age of fitness -- "Fit or fat"? : fitness in recent history and the present day -- Fitness: trajectories of a concept since the eighteenth century -- Working -- Having sex -- Fighting -- Productive, potent, and ready to fight? |