Female Bodybuilding and Patriarchal Civilization. The Intrusion of a Practice in Sport into Artistic Fields and Visual Culture

This essay focuses on the practice of female bodybuilding (in form we know it today) from perspectives domination and empowerment, social influence power. The primary theoretical frame reference is Bourdieu’s field-habitus-capital approach, though this also discusses some limitations applications theory, since Bourdieu linked with working class only did not discuss as a middle feminism connotated well. Using critical queer discussed in terms its similarities fundamental difference male bodybuilding. furthermore looks at systemic level, analyzing expansion sport entertainment into several cultural visual fields, including eroticism arts, process differentiation; globalization beyond origins United States Kingdom, which was facilitated by internet—psycho power—and redefined practice’s visibility after iconic turn an overall economy appearance attention. Of special relevance, analyzes intra- intergender struggles within field light dominance institutional enforced heteronomous orientations (demand well gaze) that support heavily sexualized, essentialist expectations “femininity” for performing bodybuilders. These are similarly reinforced demands marketing interests supported complicity negatively privileged, characteristic functioning symbolic power sense. ambiguity involved affirmative reproduction dominant gender order, intentions dissident interventions patriarchal using provided French constructivist structuralism further approaches to