Critical Readings in Bodybuilding (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Locks, Adam; Richardson, Niall

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Critical Readings in Bodybuilding is the first collection to address the contemporary practice of bodybuilding, especially the way in which the activity has become increasingly more extreme, and to consider much neglected debates of gender, eroticism, and sexuality related to the activity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136675447
• Artikelnr.: 38272569

Autorenporträt

Niall Richardson is lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sussex. He is the author of The Queer Cinema of Derek Jarman: Critical and Cultural Readings (IB Tauris, 2009), Transgressive Bodies: Representations in Film and Popular Culture (Ashgate, forthcoming) and various peer-reviewed journal articles on the body, gender politics and sexuality. He is also a former competitive bodybuilder and registered judge for bodybuilding competitions. Adam Locks is Programme Co-ordinator for Media Studies at the University of Chichester. His Ph.D. examined professional bodybuilding in America and he regularly gives papers on the sport in the States. He also writes on horror cinema and pop music.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: What is There to Say About Bodybuilding? Adam Locks and Niall
Richardson Part 1: Practices Introduction: What is the 'Practice' of
Bodybuilding? Niall Richardson and Adam Locks 1. 'Barbie and the Beast:
Emphasized Femininity, Labor and Power Relations among Fitness, Figure and
Women Bodybuilding Competitors' Anne Bolin 2. Accounting for Illicit
Steroid Use: Bodybuilders' Justifications Lee F. Monaghan 3. The
Shame-Pride-Shame of the Muscled Self in Bodybuilding: A Life History Study
Andrew Sparkes 4. Building Otherwise: Bodybuilding as Immersive Practice
Leslie Heywood 5. Outside and Inside the Gym: Exploring the Identity of the
Female Body Builder Tanya Bunsell and Chris Shilling 6. Bodybuilders, Love
and Vanity: Why Professors Should Look in the Mirror More Often Doug Aoki
7. Bodybuilding and Health Work: A Life Course Perspective Brian Bailey and
James Gillett Part 2: Representations Introduction: Bodybuilding AS
Representation Niall Richardson and Adam Locks 8. The Self Contained Body:
the Heroic and Aesthetic/Erotic Modes of Representing the Muscular Body
Kenneth Dutton 9. Flayed Animals in an Abattoir: The Bodybuilder as
Body-Garde Adam Locks 10. Aphrodisia and Erotogenesis Joanna Frueh 11. Flex
Rated Muscle Worship! Female Bodybuilding: Feminist Resistance or Erotic
Spectacle? Niall Richardson 12. Freak Out! Greg Valentino, Synthol and
Exploding Bodies Pamela Church Gibson 13. Too Big to be Bexy?
Hyper-Muscularity Versus Muscle Tone Clarissa Smith. Notes. Conclusion.
Index