Dworkin and Wachs analyze 10 years of health and fitness magazines to uncover how
bodies are made in popular culture Are you ripped? Do you need to work on your abs? Do …

In recent years the body has become one of the most popular areas of study in the arts,
social sciences and humanities. Transgressive Bodies offers an examination of a variety of …

Impossible Bodies investigates issues of ethnicity, gender, and sexuality in contemporary
Hollywood. Examining stars from Arnold Schwarzenegger and Clint Eastwood, to Whoopi …

Females with large muscles evoke strong reactions from men and women, often involving
disgust, discomfort, anger and threat. The controversial nature of female bodybuilding has …

Bodybuilding is a body technology that involves the building of muscle through hard work
lifting weights. Although technologies like bodybuilding can reify dominant constructions of …

As steroid use has gained prominence as a dangerous form of substance abuse, two main
sets of discourses have been deployed to investigate and ameliorate this emerging public …

" This book is as seductive as the phenomenon that it explores. With courage, love, and joy,
Frueh crosses into unexplored terrains of beauty and pleasure, where she finds a …

The major wave of Italian immigration between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
coincided with the growth of the physical culture movement in the United States. A principal …

This paper explores the paradox of female bodybuilding, which is empowering and
disempowering, simultaneously challenging and reinforcing traditional hegemonic notions …

The purpose of this study was to determine the reasons why men become competitive
amateur bodybuilders. Subjects were 339 adult males who were actively involved in …