edited by Pamela L. Moore
Rutgers University Press, 1997
Paper: 978-0-8135-2438-2 | Cloth: 978-0-8135-2437-5 | eISBN: 978-0-8135-5552-2
Library of Congress Classification GV546.5.B85 1997
Dewey Decimal Classification 646.75

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

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.


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