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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
"This engaging exploration of what sustains gym membership as a consumer practice will be of interest to scholars of studies of consumption, the body, leisure and health." - CHOICE Review
"Rejecting cultural dupe models, so prevalent in consumerist analyses of fitness, Sassatelli provides a comprehensive analysis of the range of complicated and sometimes contradictory meanings that participants use to understand their continued participation in a commodified fitness culture." - Journal of Consumer Culture
"Sassatelli has written a great book which will be of wide interest and value to scholars of both embodiment and consumption as well as to the narrower fraternity of 'gym researchers.'" - SocioLogica
"An important contribution to contemporary thought on consumer culture." - Journal of Sociology
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fitness Culture
Book Subtitle: Gyms and the Commercialisation of Discipline and Fun
Authors: Roberta Sassatelli
Series Title: Consumption and Public Life
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230292086
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-50749-4Published: 16 August 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-35348-4Published: 01 January 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-29208-6Published: 16 August 2010
Series ISSN: 2947-8227
Series E-ISSN: 2947-8235
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 236
Topics: Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Regional and Cultural Studies, Sociology of the Body, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Nursing, Sport Psychology