出版社：Foro para la EF y el Deporte de Castilla y León, Spain.
摘要：This paper reflects and theorises upon the engagement in a ‘self-reflexive body project’by
five male bodybuilders as they experience becoming, and being a bodybuilder. Using a
life history approach, the notion of ‘process’ is opened up by contextualising the participants’
bodybuilding biographies in a social, cultural and historical framework. Subjective meanings of
constructing and ‘being’a hypermuscular male body are considered in relation to indications of
empowerment and enselfment as experienced by these men as their bodies develop. In interpreting
this data, a range of theories of the body are eclectically drawn upon to inform the process
of becoming and being a bodybuilder in terms of its impact on self and social identity.
