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

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lowe, Maria R., 1964-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, 1998.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : growing pains
  • Muscle bound
  • The few, the powerful, the social gatekeepers
  • The dialectic of female bodybuilding : steroids, femininity, and muscularity
  • Contested terrain : corporal judgment
  • Profitable physiques, precarious hegemonies
  • Countering hegemony, coopting the resistance, and the future of female bodybuilding.