Gender, power and identities in the fitness gym: towards a sociology of the 'exercise body-beautiful complex'

This thesis examines the ways in which female bodies are central to the production and reproduction of gendered social inequality, and the formation of feminine identities in the fitness gym. Ethnographic methods were utilised to investigate the patterns and relations of power that underpinned the p...

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Main Author:	Louise Mansfield
Format:	Default Thesis
Published:	2005
Subjects:	Other health sciences not elsewhere classified Gender Bodies Power Femininities Figurational (process) Feminisms Sociology Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/2134/7753
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