This course looks at the ways that notions of fitness are tied to historically specific ideas about the body. The course focuses on ideas about race, class, gender, ability and sexuality while addressing the politics of fitness and exercise and their relationship to social, economic, and cultural institutions.
This course looks at the ways that notions of fitness are tied to historically specific ideas about the body. The course focuses on ideas about race, class, gender, ability and sexuality while addressing the politics of fitness and exercise and their relationship to social, economic, and cultural institutions.
