Fit for two? A critical discourse analysis of Oxygen fitness magazine

Article Abstract:

The representations of pregnancy, fitness and health in 'Fit for Two', a tips column for new and expectant mothers in "Oxygen" magazine are examined using Foucault's notions of disciplinary power and biopower. 'Fit for Two' column acts as a strategy for ensuring the health of the mother and child by illustrating the manner in which women's health remains a form of biopower and their fitness part of the apparatus of modern day governmentality.

Canada, Health aspects, Methods, Pregnant women, Criticism and interpretation, Women's fitness, Medical publishing, 1980 AD, Oxygen (Periodical)

---

Fit and flexible: the fitness industry, personal trainers and emotional service labor

Article Abstract:

This article examines how fitness is sold in the United States. The author, focusing on the practice of personal trainers, argues health and fitness is turned into a commodity by trainers who emulate the importance of physical appearance, but not the inner self.

Social aspects, Economic aspects, Practice, Health clubs, Physical fitness, Personal trainers

---

Steve Prefontaine: from rebel with a cause to hero with a swoosh

Article Abstract:

Media accounts of Steve Prefontaine are explored using a critical cultural studies approach. Prefontaine served as an ideal of White working-class masculinity and as a voice calling for structural changes to the track and field governing body.

Evaluation, Works, Runners (Sports), Prefontaine, Steve

Similar abstracts:

• Abstracts: Chet Forte: Monday Night Football's old loose cannon fires again. The night Tamarin died
• Abstracts: Fitted out for the sounds. What makes a dynasty. World record bluefin caught off North Carolina
• Abstracts: On the road, again. The RW 100: our exclusive listing of the top 100 road races
• Abstracts: The effects of progressive resistance training on bone density: a review. Mechanisms of muscle insulin resistance in obese individuals
• Abstracts: Prediction of visceral fat area at the umbilicus level using fat mass of the trunk: The validity of bioelectrical impedance analysis

This website is not affiliated with document authors or copyright owners. This page is provided for informational purposes only. Unintentional errors are possible.