1,760
Views
29
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

Pampering, well-being and women's bodies in the therapeutic spaces of the spa

Soins du corps, bien-être, et les corps féminins dans les espaces thérapeutiques du spa

Mimando, bienestar y los cuerpos de mujeres en los espacios terapéuticos del spa

Pages 41-58 | Published online: 30 Oct 2012

References

  • Black , P. 2002 . ‘Ordinary people come through here’: locating the beauty salon in women's lives . Feminist Review , 71 : 2 – 17 .
  • Black , P. 2004 . The Beauty Industry: Gender, Culture, Pleasure , London : Routledge .
  • Brown , T. and Bell , M. 2007 . Off the couch and on the move: global public health and the medicalisation of nature . Social Science and Medicine , 64 : 1343 – 1354 .
  • Cayleff , S. 1988 . “ Gender, ideology and the water-cure movement ” . In Other Healers: Unorthodox Medicine in America , Edited by: Gevitz , N. 82 – 98 . New York : Johns Hopkins University Press .
  • Conradson , D. 2005 . Landscape, care and the relational self: therapeutic encounters in rural England . Health and Place , 11 : 337 – 348 .
  • Corvino , D. 2004 . Amending the Abject Body: Aesthetic Makeovers in Medicine and Culture , Albany, NY : State University of New York Press .
  • Cruickshank , B. 1999 . The Will to Empower. Democratic Subjects and Other Citizens , Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press .
  • Davis , K. 1995 . Reshaping the Female Body: The Dilemma of Cosmetic Surgery , London : Routledge .
  • Davis , K. 2003 . Dubious Equalities and Embodied Differences: Cultural Studies on Cosmetic Surgery , Oxford : Rowman & Littlefield .
  • Doyal , L. 2000 . Gender equity in health: debates and dilemmas . Social Science and Medicine , 51 : 931 – 939 .
  • Foley , R. 2010 . Healing Waters: Therapeutic Landscapes in Historic and Contemporary Ireland , Farnham : Ashgate .
  • Foley , R. 2011 . Performing health in place: the holy well as a therapeutic assemblage . Health and Place , 17 : 470 – 479 .
  • Foucault , M. 1986 . The Care of the Self: The History of Sexuality , Vol. 3 , New York : Random House .
  • Frayn , E. and Lee , E. 2008 . “ The ‘Feminization’ of health ” . In Health, Illness and Medical Sociology , Edited by: Wainwright , D. 115 – 132 . London : Sage .
  • Gesler , W. 1996 . Lourdes: healing in a place of pilgrimage . Health and Place , 2 : 95 – 105 .
  • Gesler , W. 1998 . “ Bath's reputation as a healing place ” . In Putting Health into Place: Landscape, Identity and Well Being , Edited by: Kearnes , R. and Gesler , W. 17 – 35 . Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press .
  • Gimlin , D. 2007 . What is ‘body work’? A review of the literature . Sociology Compass , 1 : 353 – 370 .
  • Greenhough , B. 2006 . Tales of an island-laboratory: defining the field in geography and science studies . Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers , 31 : 224 – 238 .
  • Guthman , J. and DuPuis , M. 2006 . Embodying neo-liberalism: economy, culture and the politics of fat . Environment and Planning D: Society and Space , 24 : 427 – 448 .
  • Hayles , K. 1997 . Corporal anxiety in Dictionary of the Khazars: what books talk about in the late age of print when they talk about losing their bodies . Modern Fiction Studies , 43 : 800 – 820 .
  • Holliday , R. and Sanchez Taylor , J. 2006 . Aesthetic surgery as false beauty . Feminist Theory , 7 : 179 – 194 .
  • Lagro-Janssen , T. 2007 . Sex, gender and health: developments in research . European Journal of Women's Studies , 14 : 9 – 20 .
  • Lea , J. 2008 . Retreating to nature: rethinking ‘therapeutic landscapes’ . Area , 40 : 90 – 98 .
  • Lea , J. 2009 . Liberation or limitation? Understanding Iyengar yoga as a practice of the self . Body and Society , 15 : 71 – 92 .
  • Little , J. 2012 . Fit farms and fat camps: new perspectives on nature and the rural body . Sociologia Ruralis , 52 : 257 – 271 .
  • Lupton , D. 2003 . Medicine as Culture: Illness, Disease and the Body in Western Societies , London : Sage .
  • Mak , A. , Wong , K. and Chang , R. 2009 . Health or self indulgence? The motivations and characteristics of spa-goers . International Journal of Tourism Research , 11 : 185 – 199 .
  • Martin , E. 1994 . Flexible Bodies: The Role of Immunity in American Culture from the Days of Polio to the Age of AIDS , Boston, MA : Beacon Press .
  • Matless , D. 1995 . “ The art of right living: landscape and citizenship, 1918–39 ” . In Mapping the Subject: Geographies of Cultural Transformation , Edited by: Pile , S. and Thrift , N. 93 – 122 . London : Routledge .
  • McNeil , K. and Ragins , E. 2005 . Staying in the spa marketing game: trends, challenges, strategies and techniques . Journal of Vacation Marketing , 11 : 31 – 39 .
  • Moore , S. 2010 . Is the healthy body gendered? Toward a feminist critique of the new paradigm of health . Body and Society , 16 : 95 – 118 .
  • Morris , N. 2009 . Naked in nature: naturism, nature and the senses in early 20th century Britain . Cultural Geographies , 16 : 283 – 308 .
  • Nettleton , S. 1996 . Women and the new paradigm of health and medicine . Critical Social Policy , 16 : 33 – 53 .
  • Parr , H. 2002 . New body-geographies: the embodied spaces of health and medical information on the internet . Environment and Planning D: Society and Space , 20 : 73 – 95 .
  • Petersen , A. 2007 . The Body in Question: A Socio-Cultural Approach , London : Routledge .
  • Philo , C. 2000 . The birth of the clinic: an unknown work of medical geography . Area , 30 : 11 – 19 .
  • Pitts-Taylor , V. 2007 . Surgery Junkies: Wellness and Pathology in Cosmetic Culture , New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press .
  • Sharma , U. and Black , P. 2001 . Look good, feel better: beauty therapy as emotional labour . Sociology , 35 : 913 – 931 .
  • Straughan , E. 2010 . The salon as clinic: problematizing, treating and caring for skin . Social and Cultural Geography , 11 : 647 – 661 .
  • Waterfall Spa (2011), Pamper Days at Waterfall Spa, http://www.waterfallspa.co.uk/pamperdays.php (accessed 28 November 2011)
  • White , G. 2003 . Hot Bath: The Story of the Spa , Bath : Nutbourne .
  • Williams , A. , ed. 1999 . Therapeutic Landscapes: The Dynamic Between Place and Wellness , Lanham, MD : University Press of America .
  • Williams , A. 2007 . Therapeutic Landscapes: Geographies of Health , Aldershot : Ashgate .
  • Young , A. 1980 . The discourse of stress and the reproduction of conventional knowledge . Social Science and Medicine , 148 : 133 – 146 .
  • Zweiniger-Bargielowska , I. 2010 . Managing the Body: Beauty, Health and Fitness in Britain, 1880–1939 , Oxford : Oxford University Press .

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.