Bodymakers - Heywood, Leslie
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Women with muscles are a recent phenomenon, so recent that, while generating a good deal of interest, their importance to the cultural landscape has yet to be acknowledged. Leslie Heywood looks at the sport and image of female body building as a metaphor for how women fare in our current political and cultural climate. She argues that the movement in women's body building from small, delicate bodies to large powerful ones and back again is directly connected to progress and backlash within the abortion debate, the ongoing struggle for race and gender equality, and the struggle to define "feminism" in the context of the nineties.…mehr

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Women with muscles are a recent phenomenon, so recent that, while generating a good deal of interest, their importance to the cultural landscape has yet to be acknowledged. Leslie Heywood looks at the sport and image of female body building as a metaphor for how women fare in our current political and cultural climate. She argues that the movement in women's body building from small, delicate bodies to large powerful ones and back again is directly connected to progress and backlash within the abortion debate, the ongoing struggle for race and gender equality, and the struggle to define "feminism" in the context of the nineties.
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LESLIE HEYWOOD (photo, right) is an assistant professor of English at the State University of New York, Binghamton. She is author of Dedication to Hunger: The Anorexic Aesthetic in Modern Culture and coeditor, with Jennifer Drake, of Third Wave Agenda: Being Feminist, Doing Feminism. Her next book will be an autobiographical account of her life as a female athlete, to be published in 1998.