In 1958, in the aftermath of a sex crime panic, the site was closed. In the 1940s and 1950s, at Santa Monica's Muscle Beach, male and female acrobats and bodybuilders performed stunts and displayed muscular physiques. The capacity of gender capital to remain elusive is precisely what enables gender practices and projects like bodybuilding to retain passionate participation. Individuals can attempt to embody hegemonic idealizations, but bodies are not only inscribed with gender, inscriptions are read, and read differently by different social actors and in different settings. Inherent in this discussion are the cultural contradictions apparent among individuals striving for either physical or ideological embodiments of gender capital. Hegemonic masculinity takes different shapes in different fields of interaction, acting as a form of cultural capital: gender capital. Using ethnographic and interview data from a US male bodybuilding community, this study highlights one useful employment. They have been used in a diversity of ways. While both have received serious consideration, critique and analysis, the context or field-specificity of each is sometimes ignored. Keywords: feminist theory, gender studies, bodybuilding, strength trainingĬultural capital and hegemonic masculinity are two concepts that have received intense attention. The analysis at once specific to female bodybuilding offers us a chance to explore larger questions about what it means to be feminine and masculine, and how those attributes correspond with personhood and identity. We find that in a given micro-action performance, one can take on traditionally defined male or female gender attributes, or a combination of both. Conceptualisations of gender and beauty were treated as socially constructed performances that reveal themselves through temporary micro-actions and the epiphanies and reactions that come forth as a result of those micro-actions. analysing reactions of the bodybuilding culture by non-bodybuilding Brazilian informants. participant-observation in a Brazilian bodybuilding gym, and 3. via a textural and descriptive analysis covering strength training and bodybuilding social media profiles, 2.
Gender as performance was studied by way of three fronts: 1. This dissertation seeks to answer the question: “what does female strength training in Brazil reveal about gender and beauty?” Through a critical reading of the history of female strength training, it is argued that while female strength training, in particular weight training and bodybuilding, presents a threat to a traditional understanding of gender and what it means to be ‘feminine,’ the subversive nature of female gender identity within the sport is overshadowed by a hegemonic feminine and masculine framework, which propagates a normalised feminine ideal.
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