Title Women of steel : female bodybuilders and the struggle for self-definition / Maria R. Lowe

Published New York : New York University Press, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (x, 206 pages) : illustrations Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-199) and index Notes Print version record Subject Women bodybuilders -- United States Self-perception in women -- United States Femininity -- United States Bodybuilding for women -- Social aspects -- United States SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies. FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- General. Bodybuilding for women -- Social aspects Femininity Self-perception in women Women bodybuilders United States Form Electronic book LC no. 97021216 ISBN 9780814765456 0814765459

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