Body Problems: Running and Living Long in a Fast-Food Society by Ben Agger (Engl

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Body Problems addresses the relationship between the body and society in a fast-food culture. This second edition has been updated to include new chapters on food capitalism and alternative ways in which people may take back control over their bodies, health, and well-being in an over-rationalized and bureaucratized society.

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Body Problems addresses the relationship between the body and society in a fast-food culture. Agger focuses on issues of food, exercise, work, dieting and eating disorders, fashion, bariatric and cosmetic surgery, and health. He addresses a growing, fundamental dilemma that we have ample access to abundant calories yet lead lifestyles and have jobs that for the most part do not enable us to expend those calories. He proposes solutions, both individual and structural, that involve re-orienting ourselves to exercise as play. This second edition has been updated to include a new chapter on food capitalism and a concluding passage arguing Cartesian dualism can be resolved by exercising vegans in ways that would thwart this food capitalism and give people immense control over their bodies, health, and well-being. The book is ideal for courses in introductory sociology, social problems, work, sociology of sport and leisure, gender, and health and illness.

Author Biography

Ben Agger (1952–2015) was Professor of Sociology and Humanities and Director of the Center for Theory at the University of Texas at Arlington. Among his last published books were Texting Toward Utopia: Kids, Writing, and Resistance (2013) and Oversharing: Presentations of Self in the Internet Age (2012).

Table of Contents

Introduction: What's a Body to Do? (Scott McNall) 1. There was no Body Problem Until Modernity: Descartes, Henry Ford, Corn Syrup Highways 2. Too Much of a Good Thing, and the Invention of Exercise 3. Body Sciences 4. Body Industries 5. Beyond Industries 6. Food Fights: The Contested Terrain of the American Dinner Plate 7. Vegans Who Run

Details ISBN1138658758 ISBN-10 1138658758 ISBN-13 9781138658752 Format Paperback Series Framing 21st Century Social Issues Edition 2nd Imprint Routledge Subtitle Running and Living Long in a Fast-Food Society Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Author Ben Agger Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Short Title BODY PROBLEMS REV/E 2/E Language English Media Book Residence Arlington, TX, US Replaces 9780415891981 DEWEY 306.4613 Affiliation University of Texas, USA Year 2019 Illustrations 4 Illustrations, black and white Pages 88 AU Release Date 2019-08-14 NZ Release Date 2019-08-14 Publication Date 2019-08-14 UK Release Date 2019-08-14 Edition Description 2nd edition Alternative 9781138658745 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this

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