Yes, I used to exercise, but... - a feminist study of exercise in the life of Swedish women.

From: Journal of Leisure Research | Date: January 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

This paper provides a psychological, social-constructivist, feminist analysis of exercise as a leisure activity in the life of Swedish women. Thematic in-depth interviews with fifty Swedish women between twenty and sixty years of age were analyzed within a psychological discursive model. Exercise was found to be both dissonant and consonant with the women's construction of themselves. Exercise was considered important in relation to physical appearance, weight gain, and as an appropriate gender activity. The study also showed the women's disassociation from male-marked sports, and the ...

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