Consuming Lifestyles: Transforming the Body and the Self in Postfeminist America

Hribar, Amy S.
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Title:Consuming Lifestyles: Transforming the Body and the Self in Postfeminist America
Author(s):Hribar, Amy S.
Doctoral Committee Chair(s):Sydnor, Synthia
Department / Program:Kinesiology and Community Health
Discipline:Kinesiology and Community Health
Degree Granting Institution:University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree:Ph.D.
Genre:Dissertation
Subject(s):Women's Studies
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.
Issue Date:2001
Type:Text
Language:English
Description:126 p.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001.
URI:http://hdl.handle.net/2142/86354
Other Identifier(s):(MiAaPQ)AAI3017105
Date Available in IDEALS:2015-09-28
Date Deposited:2001


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