Table of Contents

CONTENTS: The Problem of the Muscular Woman - The Invention of the Muscular Woman as a Problem - Truth, Power and Relations to Self - Methodological Elements - What is a Woman? - The Victorian Strong Woman - The Myth of Femininity - Woman as Imagined.

About the Author

Jamilla Rosdahl is a researcher in gender and sexuality studies in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of the Sunshine Coast, where she specialises in social theory, gender, sexuality, disability, the body, nineteenth- and twentieth-century continental philosophy, social and political thought and postcolonial theory. She is also active in gender, sexual and identity politics and human rights, anti-war politics and moral philosophy.