Women of Steel : : Female Bodybuilders and the Struggle for Self-Definition /

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.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1998]
©1998
Year of Publication:1998
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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