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9 produkter
Dedication to Hunger
The Anorexic Aesthetic in Modern Culture
Häftad, 1996
575 kr
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Writing as a competitive athlete, an academic, and a woman, Leslie Heywood merges personal history and scholarship to expose the "anorexic logic" that underlies Western high culture. She maneuvers deftly across the terrain of modern literature, illustrating how this logic—the privileging of mind …
Dedication to Hunger
The Anorexic Aesthetic in Modern Culture
E-bok, 1996
386 kr
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Writing as a competitive athlete, an academic, and a woman, Leslie Heywood merges personal history and scholarship to expose the "anorexic logic" that underlies Western high culture. She maneuvers deftly across the terrain of modern literature, illustrating how this logic—the privileging of mind …
Dedication to Hunger
The Anorexic Aesthetic in Modern Culture
Inbunden, 1996
1329 kr
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Writing as a competitive athlete, an academic, and a woman, Leslie Heywood merges personal history and scholarship to expose the "anorexic logic" that underlies Western high culture. She maneuvers deftly across the terrain of modern literature, illustrating how this logic—the privileging of mind …
Bodymakers
A Cultural Anatomy of Women's Body Building
Häftad, 1998
389 kr
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"A highly unique and refreshing contribution. Heywood not only theorizes the relationships among feminism, activism, and bodybuilding but also provides what so many works on built female bodies lack-a feminine historical context. . . . Heywood concludes with a call for women to 'feel our muscles, …
Third Wave Agenda
Being Feminist, Doing Feminism
Häftad, 1997
274 kr
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Discusses the challenges and pleasures of creating a new feminism.Young feminists have grown up with a plethora of cultural choices and images-in the distance from Gloria Steinem to Courtney Love, a chasm has been traversed and an entire history made. In Third Wave Agenda, feminists born between …
Built to Win
The Female Athlete As Cultural Icon
Häftad, 2003
259 kr
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A timely look at the rise of women in sportsThe sculpted speed of Marion Jones. The grit and agility of Mia Hamm. The slam-dunk style of Lisa Leslie. The skill and finesse of these sports figures are widely admired, no longer causing the puzzlement and discomfort directed toward earlier generations …
Abnormal Repetitive Behaviors
Häftad, 2016
137 kr
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Abnormal Repetitive Behaviors explores how we respond to violence, grief, and loss, and the ways animals are emotionally akin to us in those responses. Driven by the ways those primary emotions get tangled with memory, the ways the body informs the mind, we end up feeling and repeating behaviors …
Pretty Good for a Girl
An Athlete's Story
Häftad, 1999
289 kr
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The gripping story of one woman’s drive to win-now in paperback.The gripping story of one woman’s drive to win-now in paperback."Just in time for the upsurge in ‘girl power’ books comes this insightful yet disturbing sports memoir of a former Arizona high-school track and cross-country star who …
Proving Grounds
Häftad, 2005
197 kr
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The Proving Grounds unfolds a narrative not of strict chronology, but rather the way each poem functions as a moment that gathers the thematic clusters of the struggle for identity in a consumer culture that has no sense of intrinsic value and that struggle’s manifestation in the world of athletic …
