Building Bodies - Pamela Moore

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.
Linked by their focus on the sport and practice of body building, the
authors in this volume challenge both the way their various disciplines
(media studies, literary criticism, gender studies, film and sociology)
have gone about studying bodies, and existing assumptions about the
complex relationship between power, subjectivity, society, and flesh.
Body building--in practice, in representation, and in the cultural
imagination--serves as an launching point because the sport and
practice provide ready challenges to existing assumptions about the
""built"" body.