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Moving beyond the image: Theorising ‘extreme’ female bodies
Women's Studies International Forum ( IF 1.736 ) Pub Date : 2020-09-11 , DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2020.102416
Hester Hockin-Boyers , Kimberly Jamie , Stacey Pope

Since their entry onto the competitive scene in 1977, female bodybuilders have been the subject of sustained debate among scholars from a range of disciplines. Within this body of literature, discourses are polarised and offer two opposing representations of the female bodybuilder; one of resistance and one of compliance. This bifurcation of discourse, we argue, is symptomatic of a more general occularcentric tradition within theorising on ‘extreme’ or transgressive female bodies. In this article, we unpack these disparate perspectives and by drawing on research relating to anorexia and fat studies we advocate for an alternative theoretical space, premised on the affectual relationality/co-constitution of materiality and representation, from which to approach female bodybuilding as a corporeal practice. Moreover, we propose that by developing an interdisciplinary approach to female corporeality (muscularity, thinness, fatness etc.), we can dismantle unproductive and ontologically redundant divisions which segregate and silo feminist writing on embodiment.



中文翻译:

超越形象:“极端”女性身体理论化

自从1977年进入竞技领域以来,女性健美运动员一直是各学科学者中不断争论的主题。在这组文学作品中,话语是两极化的,并提供了女性健美运动员的两个相反的表述。阻力之一,合规之一。我们认为,这种话语分歧是对“极端”或侵略性女性身体理论中更普遍的以眼为中心的传统的征兆。在本文中,我们将解开这些截然不同的观点,并通过利用与厌食症和脂肪研究相关的研究,提倡建立另一种理论空间,其前提是在物质关系和表象的情感关系/共同构成的基础上,将女性健美运动视为有形的实践。此外,

更新日期:2020-09-11
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