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Confessing Excess : Women and the Politics of Body Reduction
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ISBN: 0585089981 9780585089980 1438420803 Year: 1990

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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.


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Rolfing and Physical Reality.
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ISBN: 1620553384 Year: 1990 Publisher: Rochester : Inner Traditions International, Limited,

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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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Rolfing --- Health & Fitness


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Fitness and wellness : the physical connection.
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ISBN: 0314667865 Year: 1990 Publisher: Saint Paul West Publishing Company

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Exercise --- Health --- Nutrition --- Physical fitness


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The AIDS Notebooks [SUNY Series in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences]
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ISBN: 0585055343 9780585055343 1438418892 Year: 1990 Publisher: State University of New York Press

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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.


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Fitness works!
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Year: 1990 Publisher: Gloucester, Ont. : Workplace Fitness Office,

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Physiology of fitness
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ISBN: 0873222679 Year: 1990 Publisher: Human Kinetics Books,

Aging and Menopause Among Indian South African Women
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ISBN: 0585091307 9780585091303 0791403890 0791403904 1438401566 Year: 1990

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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.


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Executive edge.
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Year: 1990 Publisher: Emmaus, PA : Rodale Press,

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Executive edge.
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Year: 1990 Publisher: Emmaus, PA : Rodale Press,

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Exercise in health and disease : evaluation and prescription for prevention and rehabilitation
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ISBN: 0721629482 Year: 1990 Publisher: Philadelphia : W.B. Saunders,

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