Date of Award
Spring 5-1-2013
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Women's Studies
First Advisor
Megan J. Sinnott
Second Advisor
Amira Jarmakani
Third Advisor
Jennifer Patico
Abstract
Once known only as Bodybuilding and Women’s Bodybuilding, the sport has grown to include multiple competition categories that both limit and expand opportunities for female bodybuilders. While the creation of additional categories, such as Fitness, Figure, Bikini, and Physique, appears to make the sport more inclusive to more variations and interpretation of the feminine, muscular physique, it also creates more in-between spaces. This auto ethnographic research explores the ways that multiple female competition categories within the sport of Bodybuilding define, reinforce, and complicate the gendered experiences of female physique athletes, by bringing freak theory into conversation with body categories.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/3575132
Recommended Citation
Hunter, Sheena A., "Not Simply Women's Bodybuilding: Gender and the Female Competition Categories." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2013.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/3575132
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