Fitspiration or Fitsploitation? Postfeminism, Digital Media and Authenticity in Women’s Fitness Culture
Women’s fitness culture calls for women to take responsibility for their physical fitness in a way that contests but also actively draws from well-established models of femininity. This thesis asks how and to what extent women’s fitness represents itself as empowering at the same time as it reinforc...
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| author | Magladry, Madison Rose |
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| description | Women’s fitness culture calls for women to take responsibility for their physical fitness in a way that contests but also actively draws from well-established models of femininity. This thesis asks how and to what extent women’s fitness represents itself as empowering at the same time as it reinforces gender roles. Women’s fitness conveys a postfeminist sensibility characterised by a neoliberal emphasis on transforming the self while presenting this project as a mode of feminist liberation. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-755312019-05-20T06:37:35Z Fitspiration or Fitsploitation? Postfeminism, Digital Media and Authenticity in Women’s Fitness Culture Magladry, Madison Rose Women’s fitness culture calls for women to take responsibility for their physical fitness in a way that contests but also actively draws from well-established models of femininity. This thesis asks how and to what extent women’s fitness represents itself as empowering at the same time as it reinforces gender roles. Women’s fitness conveys a postfeminist sensibility characterised by a neoliberal emphasis on transforming the self while presenting this project as a mode of feminist liberation. 2018 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/75531 Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Magladry, Madison Rose Fitspiration or Fitsploitation? Postfeminism, Digital Media and Authenticity in Women’s Fitness Culture |
| title | Fitspiration or Fitsploitation? Postfeminism, Digital Media and Authenticity in Women’s Fitness Culture |
| title_full | Fitspiration or Fitsploitation? Postfeminism, Digital Media and Authenticity in Women’s Fitness Culture |
| title_fullStr | Fitspiration or Fitsploitation? Postfeminism, Digital Media and Authenticity in Women’s Fitness Culture |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fitspiration or Fitsploitation? Postfeminism, Digital Media and Authenticity in Women’s Fitness Culture |
| title_short | Fitspiration or Fitsploitation? Postfeminism, Digital Media and Authenticity in Women’s Fitness Culture |
| title_sort | fitspiration or fitsploitation? postfeminism, digital media and authenticity in women’s fitness culture |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/75531 |