Bodymakers : A Cultural Anatomy of Women's Body Building

ISBN-13: 9780813524795 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 240 str.

Leslie Heywood

Opis

Women with muscles are a recent phenomenon, so recent that, while generating a good deal of interest, both positive and negative, their importance to the cultural landscape has yet to be acknowledged. This newness, along with the ways in which muscular women challenge traditional ideas that associate women with physical weakness and incompetence, femininity with diminution and childishness, and the female body with softness, has led to a widely held belief, both inside body building circles and without, that the cultural implications of female body building are limited to a small subculture.