Sculpting the Woman: Muscularity, Power and the Problem with Femininity: 8 (Queering Paradigms) - Softcover

Rosdahl, Jamilla

 
9781906165833: Sculpting the Woman: Muscularity, Power and the Problem with Femininity: 8 (Queering Paradigms)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1906165831 ISBN 13: 9781906165833
Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, 2017

Synopsis

Muscular women have long been the focus of public scrutiny, cultural contempt and fascination. This book interrogates the protected status of femininity as it has been rendered irrelevant to the history, theory and politics of the muscular woman. Through its analysis it explores the question: What is a woman?

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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.

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Publisher
Peter Lang Ltd
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1906165831
ISBN 13 
9781906165833
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
230