| Other author/creator | Frueh, Joanna. |
| Other author/creator | Fierstein, Laurie. |
| Other author/creator | Stein, Judith E. |
| Other author/creator | New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, N.Y.) |
| Series |
New Museum books
New Museum books. ^A465701
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| Contents |
Preface : The body artist / Irving Lavin -- Notes on contemporary art images / Judith Stein, Laurie Fierstein, and Joanna Frueh -- Introduction. The modern amazon / Laurie Fierstein ; Object lessons / Judith Stein ; The real nude / Joanna Frueh -- Bring on the amazons : an evolutionary history / Jan Todd -- Women's bodybuilding : a contemporary history / Steve Wennerstrom -- Ghettos of obscurity : individual sovereignty and the struggle for recognition in female bodybuilding / Leslie Heywood -- Toward a new aesthetics of body for the modern woman / Al Thomas -- Dream girl / Michael Cunningham -- Hardcore : the radical self-portraiture of black female bodybuilders / Carla Williams -- My muscles, myself : selected autobiographical writings / Nathalie Gassel -- Female muscularity and the comics / Maxine Sheets-Johnstone -- Comments on the comics / Laurie Fierstein and Joanna Frueh -- Interviews with women bodybuilders : Pudgy Stockton, Bev Francis, Lenda Murray, Andrulla Blanchette, René Toney / Joanna Frueh -- Amazons in fiction : a bibliography / Pierre Samuel. |
| General note | Exhibition held at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, March 30-July 2, 2000. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| LCCN | 00688602 |
| ISBN | 0847822478 |
