The fit and healthy body: Consumer narratives and the management of postmodern corporeity

Body/Embodiment: Symbolic Interaction and the Sociology of the Body

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 231-246

  Edgley, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK   (United States)

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