Women of Steel : : Female Bodybuilders and the Struggle for Self-Definition / / Maria R. Lowe.
"A lot of people in the general public think female bodybuilding is gross and freaky . . . that that's not what a woman is supposed to look like." So says Michelle, a national bodybuilding judge. In fact, athletic women, especially those in sports where strength, muscle, and sweat fea...
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Lowe, Maria R., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Women of Steel : Female Bodybuilders and the Struggle for Self-Definition / Maria R. Lowe. New York, NY : New York University Press, [1998] ©1998 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Growing Pains -- 1. Muscle Bound -- 2. The Few, the Powerful, the Social Gatekeepers -- 3. The Dialectic of Female Bodybuilding: Steroids, Femininity, and Muscularity -- 4. Contested Terrain: Corporal Judgment -- 5. Profitable Physiques, Precarious Hegemonies: The Maintenance of the Feminine Apologetic -- 6. Countering Hegemony, Coopting the Resistance, and the Future of Female Bodybuilding -- APPENDIX A. Profiles of the Competitors, Judges, and Officials -- APPENDIX B. Data, Methodologies, Theory -- APPENDIX C. Interview Schedules: Female Bodybuilders and Judges -- APPENDIX D. Glossary of Terms -- APPENDIX E. A Muscularity Continuum -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star "A lot of people in the general public think female bodybuilding is gross and freaky . . . that that's not what a woman is supposed to look like." So says Michelle, a national bodybuilding judge. In fact, athletic women, especially those in sports where strength, muscle, and sweat feature prominently, are typically viewed by the public as being outside the boundaries of appropriate femininity. And perhaps no group of women athletes embodies this gender outlaw status more than female bodybuilders, who by their bulk and sheer strength challenge our very notions of what it means to be a woman. Why would women choose to look like that? And what does it take to get and stay so muscular? Maria R. Lowe has interviewed more than one hundred people connected with women's bodybuilding, from the bodybuilders themselves, to trainers, family members, spouses, judges, and sponsors. In Women of Steel, Lowe introduces us to a world where size and strength must be balanced with a nod toward grace and femininity. Lowe, who actually worked out with a couple of the bodybuilders she interviewed, gets at the heart of what it is to be a woman bodybuilder. We learn about "paying the price"--doing the necessary exercise, and sometimes drugs--that allows women to rise to the top of their profession. We follow their successes and failures, and discover the benefits-- including increased self-esteem and physical strength--as well as the sometimes unhealthy effects of their training regimen, from dehydration to baldness to rampant acne to high blood pressure. We travel with the women from competition to competition and find that judges' standards seem to vary alarmingly depending on momentary notions of what constitutes "the overall package"--that elusive perfect body that catches judges' eyes and wins competitions. Above all, Women of Steel is a keenly observant diary of life in women's bodybuilding, a must-read for people interested in sports, competition, physical culture, and gender. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) Bodybuilding for women Social aspects United States United States. Bodybuilding for women Social aspects United States. Femininity United States. Self-perception in women United States. Women bodybuilders United States. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000 9783110716924 print 9780814750933 https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814765456.001.0001 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814765456 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814765456/original |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Growing Pains -- 1. Muscle Bound -- 2. The Few, the Powerful, the Social Gatekeepers -- 3. The Dialectic of Female Bodybuilding: Steroids, Femininity, and Muscularity -- 4. Contested Terrain: Corporal Judgment -- 5. Profitable Physiques, Precarious Hegemonies: The Maintenance of the Feminine Apologetic -- 6. Countering Hegemony, Coopting the Resistance, and the Future of Female Bodybuilding -- APPENDIX A. Profiles of the Competitors, Judges, and Officials -- APPENDIX B. Data, Methodologies, Theory -- APPENDIX C. Interview Schedules: Female Bodybuilders and Judges -- APPENDIX D. Glossary of Terms -- APPENDIX E. A Muscularity Continuum -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author |
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