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'Sexercise': working out heterosexuality in Jane Fonda's fitness books.
- Source :
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Leisure Studies . Apr2011, Vol. 30 Issue 2, p237-255. 19p. - Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- This paper explores the connection between the promotion of heterosexual norms in women's fitness books written by or in the name of Jane Fonda during the 1980s and the commodification of women's fitness space in both the public and private spheres. The paper is set in the absence of overt discussions of normative heterosexuality in leisure studies and draws on critical heterosexual scholarship as well as the growing body of work theorising geographies of corporeality and heterosexuality. Using the principles of media discourse analysis, the paper identifies three overlapping characteristics of heterosexuality represented in Jane Fonda's fitness books, and embodied through the exercise regimes: respectable heterosexual desire, monogamous procreation and domesticity. The paper concludes that the promotion and prescription of exercise for women in the Jane Fonda workout books centred on the reproduction and embodiment of heterosexual corporeality. Set within an emerging commercial landscape of women's fitness in the 1980s, such exercise practices were significant in the legitimation and institutionalisation of heteronormativity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02614367
- Volume :
- 30
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Leisure Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 59530467
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2010.523837