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dc.contributor.authorGarratt, Dean*
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-05T16:05:33Z
dc.date.available2016-04-05T16:05:33Z
dc.date.issued2015-03-26
dc.identifier.citationGarratt, D. (2015). Queer and Uncanny: An Ethnographic Critique of Female Natural Bodybuilding. Qualitative Inquiry, 21(9), 776-786. DOI: 10.1177/1077800415574910en
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1077800415574910
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10034/604509
dc.description.abstractThis 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.isoenen
dc.publisherSAGE Publications
dc.relation.urlhttp://qix.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/03/24/1077800415574910.abstract
dc.subjectEthnography
dc.subjectFemale bodybuilding
dc.subjectLacan
dc.subjectButler
dc.subjectGender
dc.subjectIdentity
dc.titleQueer and Uncanny: An Ethnographic Critique of Female Natural Bodybuilding
dc.typeArticle
dc.identifier.eissn1552-7565
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Chesteren
dc.identifier.journalQualitative Inquiryen
html.description.abstractThis 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.


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