Building Bodies (Perspectives on the Sixties) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813524385 ISBN 13: 9780813524382

Publisher: Rutgers University Press, 1997

Synopsis

This collection of essays strives toward creating new frameworks in which the ""built body"" can be analyzed and studied and challenges the established ruling binaries of body studies.

About this title

About the Author:

Brenda L. Moore is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York, Buffalo. A Presidential Appointee to the American Battle Monuments Commission, she served on active duty for six years in the U.S. Army in the United States and Europe.

Pamela Moore was an American writer educated at Rosemary Hall and Barnard College. Her first book, Chocolates for Breakfast, was published when she was eighteen and became an international bestseller. Moore went on to write four more novels, but none of these enjoyed the success of her first. She died in 1964 at the age of twenty-six, while at work on her final, unpublished novel, Kathy on the Rocks.

From the Back Cover:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0813524385
• ISBN 13: 9780813524382
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Pamela Moore