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Body Fascism : salvation in the technology of physical fitness / Brian Pronger

Main Author Pronger, Brian Publication Toronto : University of Toronto Press, cop. 2002 Description XVI, 276 p., [1] f. ISBN 080208480X Abstract Índice: Part one - Theory: 1. Theory of science: practice, power, consensus; 2. Theory of the body: technology, puissance, pouvoir. Part Two - Texts and procedures: 3. The texts of the techonology of physical fitness; 4. Writing the fascist body: descripton, inscription, prescription.
 Resumo: In the last three decades of the twentieth century, the physically fit body became the ideal of modern western societies. Images of lean, sculpted men and women dominate the cultural landscape and are now ubiquitous on billboards, in magazines, film, television, and video. Science and popular culture are profoundly mixed in the contemporary scene, and have lead to a host of exercising and dieting technologies that will make actual bodies fit the taught, muscular ideal. Many people desire this body and the attractiveness, health, longevity, and personal security that it represents. But, as Brian Pronger argues, this approach transforms more than the body's functions and contours; it diminishes its transcendent power, compelling it conform to a profoundly limited imagination of what the body can do. Topical name Sociologia CDU 316
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Índice: Part one - Theory: 1. Theory of science: practice, power, consensus; 2. Theory of the body: technology, puissance, pouvoir. Part Two - Texts and procedures: 3. The texts of the techonology of physical fitness; 4. Writing the fascist body: descripton, inscription, prescription.

Resumo: In the last three decades of the twentieth century, the physically fit body became the ideal of modern western societies. Images of lean, sculpted men and women dominate the cultural landscape and are now ubiquitous on billboards, in magazines, film, television, and video. Science and popular culture are profoundly mixed in the contemporary scene, and have lead to a host of exercising and dieting technologies that will make actual bodies fit the taught, muscular ideal. Many people desire this body and the attractiveness, health, longevity, and personal security that it represents. But, as Brian Pronger argues, this approach transforms more than the body's functions and contours; it diminishes its transcendent power, compelling it conform to a profoundly limited imagination of what the body can do.

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