Sculpting the Woman | Muscularity, Power and the Problem with Femininity

Jamilla Rosdahl

ISBN 10: 1906165831 / ISBN 13: 9781906165833

Published by Peter Lang, 2017

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Sculpting the Woman | Muscularity, Power and the Problem with Femininity | Jamilla Rosdahl | Taschenbuch | 230 S. | Englisch | 2017 | Peter Lang | EAN 9781906165833 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: BoD - Books on Demand, In de Tarpen 42, 22848 Norderstedt, info[at]bod[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sculpting the Woman | Muscularity, Power and the Problem with Femininity
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1906165831
• ISBN 13: 9781906165833
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 225W x 150H x 13D millimeters 225 millimeters width by 150 millimeters height by 13 millimeters depth
• Weight: 330 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

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?»

About the Author

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.