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Overview"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?""" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jamilla Rosdahl , Lucy MelvillePublisher: Peter Lang Ltd Imprint: Peter Lang Ltd Edition: New edition Volume: 8 Weight: 0.330kg ISBN: 9781906165833ISBN 10: 1906165831 Pages: 220 Publication Date: 28 February 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationJamilla 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |