Bunsell, Tanya

Strong and hard women: an ethnography of female bodybuilding

by Bunsell, Tanya

fromRoutledge advances in ethnography

0 Type: Book

Females with large muscles evoke strong reactions from men and women, often involving disgust, discomfort, anger and threat. The controversial nature of female bodybuilding has caused a significant rupture on feminist ground. Whilst proponents claim that female bodybuilding is a…

Strong and hard women: an ethnography of female bodybuilding

by Bunsell, Tanya

fromRoutledge advances in ethnography

0 Type: Book

Females with large muscles evoke strong reactions from men and women, often involving disgust, discomfort, anger and threat. The controversial nature of female bodybuilding has caused a significant rupture on feminist ground. Whilst proponents claim that female bodybuilding is a…

Strong and hard women: an ethnography of female bodybuilding

by Bunsell, Tanya

fromRoutledge advances in ethnography

0 Type: Book

Females with large muscles evoke strong reactions from men and women, often involving disgust, discomfort, anger and threat. The controversial nature of female bodybuilding has caused a significant rupture on feminist ground. Whilst proponents claim that female bodybuilding is a…

This thesis explores how female bodybuilders seek to develop and maintain a viable sense of self despite being stigmatized by the gendered foundations of what Erving Goffman (1983) refers to as the 'interaction order'; the unavoidable presentational context in which identities a…