Muscular women have long been the focus of public scrutiny, cultural contempt and fascination. This book interrogates the protected status of femininity as it has been rendered irrelevant to the history, theory and politics of the muscular woman. Through its analysis it explores the question: What is a woman?

Muscular women have long been the focus of public scrutiny, cultural contempt and fascination. This book interrogates the protected status of femininity as it has been rendered irrelevant to the history, theory and politics of the muscular woman. Through its analysis it explores the question: What is a woman?