The age of fitness: how the body came to symbolize success and achievement
Jürgen Martschukat; translated by Alex Skinner
- Resource Type:
- Book (Print/Paper)
- Edition:
- English edition
- Publication:
- Cambridge, UK ; Medford : Polity Press, [2021]
- Copyright:
- ©2021
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- Summary:
- "Why the pursuit of fitness has become a central preoccupation of modern life"-- [Provided by publisher]
- Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the age of fitness
- "Fit or fat"? : fitness in recent history and the present day
- Fitness: trajectories of a concept since the eighteenth century
- Working
- Having sex
- Fighting
- Productive, potent, and ready to fight?
- Author/Creator:
- Martschukat, Jürgen , author
- Contributors:
- Skinner, Alex , translator
- Language Notes:
- Text in English; translated from German.
- Main Work:
- Other Related Resources:
- Online version: Age of fitness [by Martschukat, J.] (Medford : Polity Press, 2021 — ISBN 9781509545650; LCCN 2020033792; OCLC Number 1183398628)
- Subjects:
- General Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 227 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Physical Characteristics:
- illustration
- Call Numbers:
- BF697.5.B63 M37713 2021
- ISBNs:
- 9781509545636 (hardback)
1509545638 (hardback)
9781509545650 (epub) [Invalid] - Other Standard Numbers:
- [Unknown Type]: 40030520714
- Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 2020033791
- OCLC Numbers:
- 1178905406