“The Most Muscular Woman I Have Ever Seen”: Bev FrancisPerformance of Gender in <em>Pumping Iron II: The Women</em>

The question of what constitutes femininity has been widely debated, not only in gender studies, but also in the broader social world. A venue for this debate is the 1985 documentary, Pumping Iron II: The Women, in which gender and femininity in particular become part of the central plot of the film...

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Main Author: Shain, Cera R.
Format: Others
Published: Scholar Commons 2019
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Online Access:https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7936
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=9133&amp;context=etd