Consuming Lifestyles: Transforming the Body and the Self in Postfeminist America
Hribar, Amy S.
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Description
Title
Consuming Lifestyles: Transforming the Body and the Self in Postfeminist America
Author(s)
Hribar, Amy S.
Issue Date
2001
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Sydnor, Synthia
Department of Study
Kinesiology and Community Health
Discipline
Kinesiology and Community Health
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Women's Studies
Language
eng
Abstract
My inquiry revolves around three case studies of American celebrity-fitness and celebrity-feminist icons constituted during 1980s and 1990s America: actress Jane Fonda, infomercial queen Susan Powter, and talk show host Oprah Winfrey. I point to the troubling effects of the articulations between feminism and fitness and examine the contemporary American therapeutic cultures of recovery and renewal and what has come to constitute empowerment in the American postfeminist era.
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