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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Shirley Castelnuovo; Sharon Ruth Guthrie |
| ISBN: | 1555874398 9781555874391 |
| OCLC Number: | 37993577 |
| Description: | ix, 181 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The Feminist Wars -- Where Did We Come From? The Fall from Grace -- The Politics of Pornography -- Identity Politics -- Identity Politics and Race -- Politics and Postmodernism During the 1990s -- The Problem of Dualism and the Physically Powerful Female Body -- Will the Real Nondualist Please Stand Up? -- The Amazon as an Icon of Resistance -- The Female Bodybuilder: A Model of Feminist Embodiment? -- Female Bodybuilding: An Interpretational Conundrum for Feminists -- Women's Bodybuilding: Overcoming the Problem of Dualistic Analysis -- Elite Female Bodybuilders: Models of Resistance or Compliance? -- Developing a Nondualistic Feminist Perspective of Female Embodiment -- Elite Female Bodybuilders: The Experiential Base -- The Thousand Waves Experience: Intersecting Feminism and the Martial Arts -- Developing a Feminist Mind-Body Analytical Framework -- Thousand Waves: A Case Study -- Results -- Female Sporting Bodies -- Women in Sport and Physical Education and Anxious Masculinity -- Race and Sporting Female Bodies -- Gender Equity and Women's Sport: The Case of Title IX -- The Invisibility of Female Sporting Bodies in Mainstream Feminist Theory -- The Female Athlete as Transgressive Amazon? -- Women with Disabilities: Transgressive Challenges to the Normative Body -- Critical Perspectives on Disability -- Constructing and Deconstructing Disabilism -- Some Final Thoughts on Disability -- Identity Politics and Coalition Building -- The Search for Feminist Liberatory Symbols -- The Amazon: A Contemporary Version of Mind-Body Empowerment. |
| Series Title: | Gender and political theory. |
| Responsibility: | Shirley Castelnuovo & Sharon R. Guthrie. |
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