| Description |
vii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| 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 |
| Summary |
Building Bodies is an exciting collection of articles that strive toward constructing theoretical models in which power, bodies, discourse, and subjectivity interact in a space we can call the "built" body, a dynamic, politicized, and biological site. Contributors discuss the complex relationship between body building and masculinity, between the built body and the racialized body, representations of women body builders in print and in film, and homoeroticism in body building. 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 relationship between power, subjectivity, society, and flesh. Body building - in practice, in representation, and in the cultural imagination - serves as an launching point because the sport and practice provide ready challenges to existing assumptions about the "built" body |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-259) and index |
| Subject |
Bodybuilding -- Social aspects.
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Human body -- Social aspects.
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| Author |
Moore, Pamela L., 1968-
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| LC no. |
96049717 |
| ISBN |
0813524377 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0813524385 (paper : alk. paper) |
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