Building Bodies [Paperback]

Brenda L. Moore (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 1997

Building Bodies is an exciting collection of articles that strive toward constructing theoretical models in which power, bodies, discourse, and subjectivity interact in a space we can call the "built" body, a dynamic, politicized, and biological site. Contributors discuss the complex relationship between body building and masculinity, between the built body and the racialized body, representations of women body builders in print and in film, and homoeroticism in body building. Linked by their focus on the sport and practice of body building, the authors in this volume challenge both the way their various disciplines (media studies, literary criticism, gender studies, film and sociology) have gone about studying bodies, and existing assumptions about the complex relationship between power, subjectivity, society, and flesh. Body building - in practice, in representation, and in the cultural imagination - serves as an launching point because the sport and practice provide ready challenges to existing assumptions about the "built" body.

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Review

"A collection offering a valuable range of critical takes on that locus classicus for body studies: the 'built' body" -- Susan Squier, author of Babies in Bottles: Twentieth-Century Visions of Reproductive Technology

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Contributors include Anne Bolin, Susan Bordo, Leslee A. Fisher, Jonathan Goldberg, Lynda Goldstein, Leslie Heywood, Chris Holmlund, Pamela L. Moore, Novid Parsi, and Laurie Schulze.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 280 pages
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press (May 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0813524385
• ISBN-13: 978-0813524382
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,831,770 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)