Shooting stars, exploding cinders, her feet barelyThe lines of her musclesStretched tighter than any tree. She criedWhen she won it a second time and we criedWhen she stood on that platform`Fastest woman in the world,’ for we feltSomething in our chests leap and stretch.Florence, you were so farAhead of the rest of them that dayYour […]
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Cyborgs in the Gym: The Technopolitics of Female Muscle
Introduction My general argument in this paper is that, contrary to the popular view of it as merely a simpleminded pursuit for large, oddly shaped, animated pieces of meat, bodybuilding is a scientific and technological practice. The bodybuilder not only conceives of her body as a site to be disciplined through various chemical and mechanical […]
Ephedrine + Caffeine + Yohimbe Fat Loss Advice for Women
Your advice has been the most valuable and useful information I have found while researching fitness and fat loss. I realize you are unable to answer all of your e-mails, but I would really appreciate some advice on fat loss for non-bodybuilding women. For the past 4 weeks I have been using an “herbal” E/C/A […]
Athletic vs. Pornographic Eroticism: How Muscle Magazines Compromise Female Athletes and Delegitimize the Sport of Bodybuilding in the Public Eye
“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 […]