Queer and Uncanny: An Ethnographic Critique of Female Natural Bodybuilding
dc.contributor.author | Garratt, Dean | * |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-04-05T16:05:33Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-04-05T16:05:33Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-03-26 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Garratt, D. (2015). Queer and Uncanny: An Ethnographic Critique of Female Natural Bodybuilding. Qualitative Inquiry, 21(9), 776-786. DOI: 10.1177/1077800415574910 | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/1077800415574910 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10034/604509 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | SAGE Publications | |
dc.relation.url | http://qix.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/03/24/1077800415574910.abstract | |
dc.subject | Ethnography | |
dc.subject | Female bodybuilding | |
dc.subject | Lacan | |
dc.subject | Butler | |
dc.subject | Gender | |
dc.subject | Identity | |
dc.title | Queer and Uncanny: An Ethnographic Critique of Female Natural Bodybuilding | |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1552-7565 | |
dc.contributor.department | University of Chester | en |
dc.identifier.journal | Qualitative Inquiry | en |
html.description.abstract | 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. |