Overview

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.

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Author:   Pamela L. Moore
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780813524382

ISBN 10:   0813524385
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   01 May 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of 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"

Reviews

"A collection offering valuable range of critical takes on that locus classicus for body studies: the 'built' body.--Susan Squier ""author of Babies in Bottles: Twentieth-Century Visions of Reproductive Technology"""

Author Information

PAMELA L. MOORE received her Ph.D. in Comparative Studies from the State University of New York, Stony Brook.

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