title: [Fitness symbols: the physical exercise programmes for health and beauty by famous actresses].
abstract: In recent years we have seen the proliferation of books on some kinds of physical exercise whose supposed belief is that staying healthy is directly related to a socially acceptable physique. Health and beauty go hand in hand in these books, and they are presented as being a result of practising a technique which is advocted by some successful figure in society such as a film actress. Four different models are analysed, each one of which corresponds to a value set by western society--beauty, competitiveness ...--or other values such as --serenity and harmony--the perceived lack of which is both sought and taken from other cultures.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Salud Pública e Historia de la ciencia, UCM.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: del Díaz Montero
mesh_terms: D001504:Beauty; D005060:Europe; D015444:Exercise; D005197:Famous Persons; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D009040:Motion Pictures / Q000266:history*; D010809:Physical Fitness; D013561:Symbolism; D014481:United States
vernacular_title: Fitness Symbols. Los programas de ejercicio físico para belleza y salud de actrices famosas.