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Women of steel

female bodybuilders and the struggle for self-definition

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New York University Press
Language
English
Pages
206

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Subjects
Bodybuilding for women, Femininity, Self-perception in women, Social aspects, Social aspects of Bodybuilding for women, Women bodybuilders, Bodybuilding, Women athletes
Places
United States

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Women of steel: female bodybuilders and the struggle for self-definition
1998, New York University Press
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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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 194-199) and index.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
646.7/5
Library of Congress
GV546.6.W64 L69 1998, GV546.6.W64L69 1998

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x, 206 p. :
Number of pages
206

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OL675039M
Internet Archive
womenofsteelfema0000lowe
ISBN 10
0814750931, 081475094X
LCCN
97021216
OCLC/WorldCat
37341210
Library Thing
1355934
Goodreads
2061022
4103967

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