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

Catalog Data

Author:
Lowe, Maria R. 1964-  Search this
Physical description:
x, 206 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
1998
C1998
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 : the maintenance of the feminine apologetic -- Countering hegemony, coopting the resistance, and the future of female bodybuilding
Topic:
Bodybuilding for women--Social aspects  Search this
Femininity  Search this
Self-perception in women  Search this
Women bodybuilders  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_535569