Conceptualisations of gender and beauty were treated as socially constructed performances that reveal themselves through temporary micro-actions and the epiphanies and reactions that come forth as a result of those micro-actions. analysing reactions of the bodybuilding culture by non-bodybuilding Brazilian informants. participant-observation in a Brazilian bodybuilding gym, and 3. via a textural and descriptive analysis covering strength training and bodybuilding social media profiles, 2. Gender as performance was studied by way of three fronts: 1. This dissertation seeks to answer the question: “what does female strength training in Brazil reveal about gender and beauty?” Through a critical reading of the history of female strength training, it is argued that while female strength training, in particular weight training and bodybuilding, presents a threat to a traditional understanding of gender and what it means to be ‘feminine,’ the subversive nature of female gender identity within the sport is overshadowed by a hegemonic feminine and masculine framework, which propagates a normalised feminine ideal.
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