Sculpting the Woman: Muscularity, Power and the Problem with Femininity (Queering Paradigms, Band 7) - Softcover

Buch 5 von 6: Queering Paradigms

Rosdahl, Jamilla

 
9781906165833: Sculpting the Woman: Muscularity, Power and the Problem with Femininity (Queering Paradigms, Band 7)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1906165831 ISBN 13: 9781906165833
Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

What is femininity? Why does the idea of femininity not seem to «fit» with muscular women? Why are muscular women the object of such controversy and skepticism? Why do some women build muscle despite these strong cultural reactions? 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?»

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jamilla Rosdahl is a researcher in gender and sexuality studies in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of the Sunshine Coast, where she specialises in social theory, gender, sexuality, disability, the body, nineteenth- and twentieth-century continental philosophy, social and political thought and postcolonial theory. She is also active in gender, sexual and identity politics and human rights, anti-war politics and moral philosophy.

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Verlag
Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1906165831
ISBN 13 
9781906165833
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
220
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