Body Panic Book Review

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Dworkin, Shari and Faye Wachs. Body Panic: Gender, Health, and the Selling of Fitness New
York: New York University Press, 2009. eBook.
Body Panic refers to how humans personally react to body image. Throughout the novel various aspects of female and male gender are examined separately. The textual language was very advanced, which could cause confession to the reader. In addition there are multiple references throughout the writing. However the information provided will influence a better understanding of gender from a psychological mindset.
Fisher, Seymour. Development and Structure of the Body. Volume 1.Hillsdale: Lawrence
Erlbaum Associates, 1986. Print.
Development And Structure of Body Image is a research and analysis book. Fisher not only reviews his …show more content…

There are various perspectives in which the authors use to address male and female sports gender. History, demographic, diversity sex, and sex all affect how sports are played and what is socially acceptable. This resource can be used to compare how sexuality is view in sport to how it is viewed in dance.
Karayanni, Stavros Stavrou. Dancing Fear & Desire : Race, Sexuality And Imperial Politics In
Middle Eastern Dance. Waterloo, Ont: WLU Press, 2004. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost).
Karayanni calls this book a “project”. Karayanni was a belly dancer and has a deep passion for the subject, the novel is combination of discoveries made over many years. The Middle East is heavily affect but politics and culture; it is almost forbidden to do something out of the norm. Karayanni studies how Middle Eastern culture affects dancing and social perspective. Dancing Fear & Desire can be used to compare the culture of dancing in America to a Middle Eastern country.
Laws, Kenneth. Physics and the Art of Dance: Understanding Movement. Oxford: Oxford
University Press. 2002. eBook Collection

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