The Politics of the Pump |
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| Authors: | LYNDA JOHNSTON |
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| Affiliation: | Whenua/Department of Geography at the Te Whare Waananga Waikato/ University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Kirikiriroa/Hamilton, New Zealand. |
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| Abstract: | I suggest that the training environment and the female built body are both politicised sites of change. The gym provides a material and discursive environment that reworks bodies in the masculine/feminine binary. The specific materiality of women's muscled (built) bodies provides the ground for contestation of Western heirarchical dualisms, thereby opening up new spaces to reconceptualise the sexed body in geography. |
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