Building Bodies /

Linked by their focus on the sport and practice of body building, the authors in this volume challenge both the way their various disciplines (media studies, literary criticism, gender studies, film and sociology) have gone about studying bodies, and existing assumptions about the complex relationsh...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Moore, Pamela L., 1968-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 1997.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Soziologie.
Körper.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Geschichte.
Bodybuilding.
Sociale aspecten.
Menselijk lichaam.
Soziologie
Körper
Aufsatzsammlung
Geschichte
Bodybuilding
Human body > Social aspects.
Bodybuilding > Social aspects.
Corps humain > Aspect social.
Culturisme > Aspect social.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Knowing Bodies
  • On the Muscle / Laurie Schulze
  • Reading the Male Body / Susan Bordo
  • Feminist Bodybuilding, Sex, and the Interruption of Investigative Knowledge / Pamela L. Moore
  • Visible Difference and Flex Appeal: The Body, Sex, Sexuality, and Race in the Pumping Iron Films / Chris Holmlund
  • Don't Worry, Sam, You're Not Alone: Bodybuilding Is So Queer / Novid Parsi
  • "Building One's Self Up": Bodybuilding and the Construction of Identity among Professional Female Bodybuilders / Leslee A. Fisher
  • Masculinity Vanishing: Bodybuilding and Contemporary Culture / Leslie Heywood
  • Flex Appeal, Food, and Fat: Competitive Bodybuilding, Gender, and Diet / Anne Bolin
  • Singing the Body Electric: Buying into Pop Cult Bodies / Lynda Goldstein
  • Recalling Totalities: The Mirrored Stages of Arnold Schwarzenegger / Jonathan Goldberg.

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