Laura Tracy Ginsberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 4795017 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Tracy Ginsberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura Tracy |
| FAMILY NAME | Ginsberg |
| SIGNATURE | GINSBERG L T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Japanese Studies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Hard Work of Working Out: Defining Leisure, Health, and Beauty in a Japanese Fitness Club
The author has taken the fitness club as the institutional focus through which to explore how health, beauty, and leisure are constructed, consumed, and challenged in late-capitalist Japan. Given the cultural emphasis on effort and the pervasive and narrow standard for female beauty in Japan, the fact that most fitness club members do not want to work at working out is surprising. This grounded analysis will expose the fitness club as a contradic…
The Hard Work of Working Out: Defining Leisure, Health, and Beauty in a Japanese Fitness Club
The author has taken the fitness club as the institutional focus through which to explore how health, beauty, and leisure are constructed, consumed, and challenged in late-capitalist Japan. Given the cultural emphasis on effort and the pervasive and narrow standard for female beauty in Japan, the fact that most fitness club members do not want to work at working out is surprising. This grounded analysis will expose the fitness club as a contradic…
The Hard Work of Working Out: Defining Leisure, Health, and Beauty in a Japanese Fitness Club
The author has taken the fitness club as the institutional focus through which to explore how health, beauty, and leisure are constructed, consumed, and challenged in late-capitalist Japan. Given the cultural emphasis on effort and the pervasive and narrow standard for female beauty in Japan, the fact that most fitness club members do not want to work at working out is surprising. This grounded analysis will expose the fitness club as a contradic…
Aesthetics (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Beauty (1 works) · Club (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (1 works) · Engineering (1 works) · Fashion and Cultural Textiles (1 works) · Focus (optics (1 works) · Gender Studies (1 works)