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| How various 'cultures of fitness' shape subjective experiences of growing older | | Author(s) | Susan Paulson |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 25, part 2, March 2005 |
| Pages | pp 229-244 |
| Source | http://journals.cambridge.org/ |
| Keywords | Exercise ; Dancing ; Good Health ; Biological ageing ; Attitude ; Comparison ; Qualitative Studies. |
| Annotation | Is growing older a process of decline or of keeping active? Foucauldian theory suggests particular regimes of fitness will discipline ageing bodies in distinctively different ways. This paper reports a comparative ethnographic and qualitative interview study of a "fitness exercise" and a "dance exercise" group for the over 50s. The findings demonstrate the ways in which contradictory cultural discourses in the fitness training curricula are associated with different subjective experiences of physical and psychological ageing. The "fitness exercise" group focused on individual fitness levels for the ageing body in terms of the cultural discourses of the psychosocial benefits of movement in relation to others. The study combined phenomenological and social constructionist dimensions, and exemplifies the ways in which the subjective experience of the ageing body may become embedded in particular cultures of fitness. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050316006 A |
| Classmark | CEA: HNA: CD: BH: DP: 48: 3DP |
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