Women of steel
Subtitle: female bodybuilders and the struggle for self-definition
By: Maria R. Lowe.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
Subjects: Bodybuilding for women -- Social aspects -- United States; Femininity -- United States; Self-perception in women -- United States; Women bodybuilders -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 194-199) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : growing pains; title: Muscle bound; title: The few, the powerful, the social gatekeepers; title: The dialectic of female bodybuilding : steroids, femininity, and muscularity; title: Contested terrain : corporal judgment; title: Profitable physiques, precarious hegemonies; title: Countering hegemony, coopting the resistance, and the future of female bodybuilding.