Bøker av Leslie Heywood

Examining the sport and image of female body building as a metaphor for how women fare in the current political and cultural climate, this text draws on contemporary feminist and cultural theory. It reveals how female bodybuilders find themselves both trapped and empowered by their sport.

In this work, young feminists born between the years 1964 and 1973, discuss the things that they consider matter now - both in looking at the accomplishments and failures of the past, and in planning for the future.