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Leslie Heywood is Professor of English and Creative Writing at SUNY-Binghamton, where she was a 2009 recipient of the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activities. Interdisciplinary in focus, her areas are creative writing, science studies, environmental studies, gender studies, and sport studies.

Creative non-fiction is a main focus, and she has published the memoir Pretty Good for a Girl (The Free Press/Simon & Schuster), and is the creative non-fiction editor of Ragazine. Her academic work includes Built to Win: The Female Athlete as Cultural Icon (University of Minnesota Press), Dedication to Hunger: The Anorexic Aesthetic in Modern Culture (University of California Press), Bodymakers: A Cultural Anatomy of Women’s Bodybuilding (Rutgers University Press), and Third Wave Agenda: Being Feminist, Doing Feminism (University of Minnesota Press). She also edited The Women’s Movement Today: An Encyclopedia of Third Wave Feminism (Greenwood Reference), and has recently been published in journals such as Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience, Science and Education and The Evolutionary Review.

Athletic vs. Pornographic Eroticism: How Muscle Magazines Compromise Female Athletes and Delegitimize the Sport of Bodybuilding in the Public Eye

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“I was fast asleep,” Ben Weider writes, “on the morning of the 30th of January, when sometime around 3 AM, I received a telephone call from Nagano, Japan, informing me that the IFBB had been granted official IOC recognition and that bodybuilding was now a sport to be respected the same as other sports.”i Weider […]