Sculpting the Woman
Muscularity, Power and the Problem with Femininity
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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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?»
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What is femininity?Why does the idea of femininity not seem to «fit» with muscular women?
Why are muscular women the object of such controversy and skepticism?
Why do some women build muscle despite these strong cultural reactions?
Muscular women have long been the focus of public scrutiny, cultural contempt and fascination. Sculpting the Woman interrogates the protected status of femininity as it has been rendered irrelevant to the history, theory and politics of the muscular woman. This highly original and provocative work draws on important social thinkers including Michel Foucault and Judith Butler as well as recent theoretical developments on gender, identity and the body in poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, various feminisms and social and moral philosophy. This book offers a personal insight into one of the most threatening of cultural identities: the «muscular female». Through its analysis of femininity's complex relationship with muscularity, it explores the larger question: «What is a woman?»
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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.
Autoren-Porträt von Jamilla Rosdahl
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.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Jamilla Rosdahl
- 2017, Neuausgabe, X, 220 Seiten, 5 Abbildungen, Maße: 15 x 22,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers
- ISBN-10: 1906165831
- ISBN-13: 9781906165833
- Erscheinungsdatum: 28.02.2017
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Englisch
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