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Feminism and the female body : liberating the Amazon within

Author: Shirley Castelnuovo; Sharon Ruth Guthrie
Publisher: Boulder : L. Rienner Publishers, 1998.
Series: Gender and political theory.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
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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