Body Fascism Salvation in the Technology of Physical Fitness |
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| Author:
| Pronger, Brian |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8020-8480-4 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2002 |
| Publisher: | University of Toronto Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $36.95 |
Book Description:
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Brian Pronger argues that a technological approach to fitness 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.
Brian Pronger argues that a technological approach to fitness 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.