Sculpting the Woman: Muscularity, Power and the Problem with Femininity

ISBN-13: 9781906165833 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 220 str.

Jamilla Rosdahl

Opis

Muscular women have long been the focus of public scrutiny, cultural contempt and fascination. This book interrogates the protected status of femininity as it has been rendered irrelevant to the history, theory and politics of the muscular woman. Through its analysis it explores the question: «What is a woman?»

Spis treści

CONTENTS: The Problem of the Muscular Woman - The Invention of the Muscular Woman as a Problem - Truth, Power and Relations to Self - Methodological Elements - What is a Woman? - The Victorian Strong Woman - The Myth of Femininity - Woman as Imagined.

O autorze

Jamilla Rosdahl is a researcher in gender and sexuality studies in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of the Sunshine Coast, where she specialises in social theory, gender, sexuality, disability, the body, nineteenth- and twentieth-century continental philosophy, social and political thought and postcolonial theory. She is also active in gender, sexual and identity politics and human rights, anti-war politics and moral philosophy.