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 relat...

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Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Brunswick, NJ [u.a.] Rutgers Univ. Press 1997
Subjects:	Bodybuilding Corps humain - Aspect social Culturisme - Aspect social Menselijk lichaam Sociale aspecten Gesellschaft Bodybuilding > Social aspects Human body > Social aspects Soziologie Geschichte Körper Aufsatzsammlung
Summary:	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
Physical Description:	266 S. Ill.
ISBN:	0813524377 0813524385