"Exercise Teaches You the Pleasure of Discipline": The Female Body in Jane Fonda's Aerobics Videos

Woitas, Melanie

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%T "Exercise Teaches You the Pleasure of Discipline": The Female Body in Jane Fonda's Aerobics Videos
%A Woitas, Melanie
%J Historical Social Research
%N 2
%P 148-164
%V 43
%D 2018
%K Aerobics; Jane Fonda; aerobics body; body ideals; female body image; women's body
%@ 0172-6404
%~ GESIS
%> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-57729-8
%X The essay shows how Jane Fonda's aerobics video helped to produce a female body image that claims to differ from the normative standards given by society in a particular social segment. The so-called "aerobic body" was a hybrid of the prevailing delicate woman's body and a body which displays strength and a regular training in the form of muscles. Following selected examples, the following questions will be addressed: How was the female body represented in the videos? How did this influence the common body ideal?
%C DEU
%G en
%9 journal article
%W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org
%~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info