"I wanna be toned I don't want to be muscular" : dominant discourses and women's exercise choices

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dc.contributor.authorSheriff, Constance
dc.contributor.authorUniversity of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science
dc.contributor.supervisorHelstein, Michelle T.
dc.date.accessioned2011-12-09T21:06:20Z
dc.date.available2011-12-09T21:06:20Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.degree.levelMasters
dc.descriptionvii, 149 leaves ; 29 cmen_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis explores how women who exercise regularly frame their involvement in exercise with regard to discourses of femininity, fitness, consumerism, and healthism, and how these contemporary discourses impact women’s exercise choices. Sixteen semistructured interviews were conducted with women who exercise regularly. The objective was to elicit detailed information about the types of exercise these women were involved in, how they came to exercise in particular ways, and with what rationales. A Foucaultian discourse analysis of the interview transcripts was undertaken to uncover commonalities and differences in how the sometimes competing discourses of femininity, fitness, consumerism, and healthism affect the types of exercise engaged in. By examining the interplay between discourse, power/knowledge, surveillance, discipline, subjectivity, and the resultant construction of normative feminine and health ideals, this thesis attempts to determine how women are constructed, and construct themselves, as regular exercisers and how this construction impacts the ways in which the women chose to exercise.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/2582
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Kinesiology, c2011en_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Kinesiologyen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science)en_US
dc.subjectPhysical fitness for womenen_US
dc.subjectWomen -- Health and hygieneen_US
dc.subjectExcercise for womenen_US
dc.subjectBody imageen_US
dc.subjectWomen -- Psychologyen_US
dc.subjectDissertations, Academicen_US
dc.title"I wanna be toned I don't want to be muscular" : dominant discourses and women's exercise choicesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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