| Description |
1 online resource (x, 206 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-199) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : growing pains -- Muscle bound -- The few, the powerful, the social gatekeepers -- The dialectic of female bodybuilding : steroids, femininity, and muscularity -- Contested terrain : corporal judgment -- Profitable physiques, precarious hegemonies -- Countering hegemony, coopting the resistance, and the future of female bodybuilding. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women bodybuilders -- United States.
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Women bodybuilders. |
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United States. |
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Self-perception in women -- United States.
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Self-perception in women. |
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Femininity -- United States.
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Femininity. |
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Bodybuilding for women -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Bodybuilding for women -- Social aspects. |
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Bodybuilding for women. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Dictionaries.
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Dictionaries.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lowe, Maria R., 1964- Women of steel. New York : New York University Press, ©1998 (DLC) 97021216 |
| ISBN |
9780814765456 electronic book |
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0814765459 electronic book |
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0814750931 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
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081475094X (paperback : acid-free paper) |
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9780814750940 |
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9780814750933 |
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