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The Late Capitalist Physique

Part of: Take Three: The Modern American Body

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2018

Sarah Schrank
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UrbanBusiness and CapitalismHealth and MedicineLeisure and Consumption
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Take Three: The Modern American Body
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Modern American History , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , November 2018 , pp. 431 - 435
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2018. Published by Cambridge University Press 

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References

1 On the transformation of turn-of-the-century American culture and its role in reshaping of body norms and rituals see, for example, Lears, T. J. Jackson, No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880–1920 (1981; Chicago, 1994)Google Scholar; Kasson, John, Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man: The White Male Body and the Challenge of Modernity in America (New York, 2002)Google Scholar; Giddens, Anthony, Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age (Stanford, CA, 1991)Google Scholar; Green, Harvey, Fit for America: Health, Fitness, Sport and American Society (New York, 1986)Google Scholar; Stearns, Peter, Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West (New York, 2002)Google Scholar; and De La Peña, Carolyn Thomas, The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American (New York, 2003)Google Scholar.

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