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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Consuming Lifestyles: Transforming the Body and the Self in Postfeminist America
Abstract
dc:descriptionMy 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.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Kinesiology and Community Health
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2015
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Hribar, Amy S.
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Sydnor, Synthia
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (MiAaPQ)AAI3017105
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/86354