Impossible Bodies
Subtitle: Femininity and Masculinity at the Movies (Comedia)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 29, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780415185769
First sentence: Pumping Iron (Butler and Flore, 1977) and Pumping Iron II: The Women (Butler, 1984), two documentaries about bodybuilding contests, provide an ideal opportunity to look at the relationships operating between body, desire, and power in the United States today.