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Looking at the discourse on female weight reduction in American culture, Confessing Excess analyzes contemporary dieting and the weight loss literature by taking up the themes of confession and surveillance. Spitzack argues that dieting is characterized by confession (of excess) which women internalize and which necessitates ongoing surveillance or monitoring of the body. Informal conversations and in-depth interviews also juxtapose women's everyday dieting experiences with the discourse of dieting texts. By evaluating the cultural construction of women in this manner, the author illuminates the power strategies that offer self-acceptance at the price of self-condemnation.
WOMEN --- HEALTH & FITNESS --- PSYCHOLOGY --- Women --- Health & Fitness --- Psychology --- Health & fitness
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A self-portrait of the warm, wise woman who created the therapy that bears her name. Here, Ida Rolf tells of her life and the wonder of the human body, and explains her technique of manipulating muscle tissue to induce correct alignment in the body.
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Exercise --- Health --- Nutrition --- Physical fitness
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This book reflects on the meaning of contemporary life in the light of diverse social reactions to AIDS. Drawing on personal interviews with gay men in Montreal, newspaper reports, government action, historical parallels, and other social facts, the author shows what the AIDS phenomenon can reveal about the nature of current reality. Intimate dimensions of experience are explored in order to understand the medical definition of human life, the 'post-modern' character of the contemporary period, and the pervasive influence of technique. The social analysis of AIDS is interwoven with personal, literary, and philosophical reflections that rebound onto the terrain of intimacy, allowing us to see what a critical reading of AIDS as a social phenomenon tells us about the elemental dramas of existence -- of love, pain, death, and sex.Represented here is one man's stock-taking of his generation's experience, exploring the social futures that different reactions to AIDS hold out to us. In the tradition of critical thought, the book is a contribution to the understanding which rescues life from the absurd.
INTERNAL MEDICINE --- MEDICAL --- Phenomenological Psychology --- Aids (Disease) --- Psychology --- Health & Fitness --- Phenomenological psychology --- Aids (disease) --- Health & fitness
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Physical fitness --- Occupational health services --- Quality of work life --- Fitness Canada
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Exercise --- Physical fitness --- Sports --- Fitness --- Physiological aspects --- Athletics --- Sports physiology --- Sports sciences --- Endurance, Physical --- Fitness, Physical --- Physical endurance --- Physical stamina --- Stamina, Physical --- Health --- Physical education and training --- Exercise physiology --- Clinical exercise physiology --- Physiological effect
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Du Toit contributes to the study of the climacteric as an important phase of the life cycle among women of different cultures (the later reproductive and postreproductive years). Drawing upon perspectives in anthropology, sociology, psychology, and gerontology, he demonstrates the need for an adequate cross-cultural theory of aging among women, and offers a solid body of research from South Africa in establishing a standard methodology for the study of the climacteric.
Menopause --- Social aspects --- South Africa --- Aging --- Muslim women --- Women [Hindu ] --- AGING --- MENOPAUSE --- WOMEN --- MUSLIM WOMEN --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- HEALTH & FITNESS --- Muslim Women --- Women --- Social Science --- Health & Fitness --- Social science --- Health & fitness
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Physical fitness --- Executives --- Health --- Cadres (Personnel) --- Condition physique --- Santé --- Health. --- Physical fitness. --- Health and hygiene --- Santé et hygiène --- Health and hygiene.
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Physical fitness --- Executives --- Health --- Cadres (Personnel) --- Condition physique --- Santé --- Health. --- Physical fitness. --- Health and hygiene --- Santé et hygiène --- Health and hygiene.
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Exercise Therapy. --- Exertion --- Physical Fitness. --- Preventive Medicine. --- Rehabilitation. --- Exercise therapy. --- Thérapeutique par l'exercice
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