Sculpting the woman muscularity, power and the problem with femininity / Jamilla Rosdahl.
| Author/creator | Rosdahl, Jamilla |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Oxford : Peter Lang, [2017] |
| Description | x, 217 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | Queering Paradigms. In focus, 2235-5367 ; 2 Queering Paradigms ; 2. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Summary | 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?" |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-213) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2016963046 |
| ISBN | 9781906165833 (print) |
| ISBN | 1906165831 (print) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |