Queer and Uncanny
An Ethnographic Critique of Female Natural Bodybuilding
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2386006 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dean Garratt (0000-0002-6929-134X, University of Chester) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 776-786 |
| Publication date | 2015-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1077800415574910 |
| OpenAlex | W2049676095 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 18 |
This article presents an ethnographic critique of the corporeal experiences of women as self-proclaimed natural bodybuilders. Drawing on detailed ethnographic work and interviews with 10 female naturals, a bricolage of multiply gendered identities and affiliations is produced. The analysis questions how in working to a " natural ethic," while desiring a "deviant aesthetic," the female bodybuilder is paradoxically repressed by a "natural gendered order." The narrative draws reflexively on psychoanalytic theory and transgendered perspectives, to examine the cultural concept: natural as a "queer" and "uncanny" paradox in which gender and identity are made and simultaneously dislocated
Aesthetics · Art · Autoethnography · Bricolage · Ethnography · Identity (music · Literature · Narrative · Natural (archaeology · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Queer · Queer theory · Sociology · Uncanny · Visual arts · Anthropology · Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies · Cultural Studies · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Gender Studies · History · Psychology
Powers of Horror
Unbearable Weight
The female bodybuilder as a gender outlaw
The Ideal of Community and the Politics of Difference
Gender Trouble
Gendered spaces
Confession, catharsis, or cure? Rethinking the uses of reflexivity as methodological power in qualitative research
Experiences of Anabolic Steroid Use
The Primitive Subject of Female Bodybuilding
Women's Bodybuilding
Sex and Muscle
Femininity and muscularity
Psychoanalytic-Autoethnography
Collapsing Gender in Competitive Bodybuilding
Of Spirit
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |