List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction - Strong A(s) F(eminist)

Interlude 1: Bulky Is Not the Worst Thing a Woman Can Be

Part I: The Public Body

1. Strength Over Gender? Discussing and Presenting the Ambivalent Female Strength in the CrossFit Games 2019

2. Lingering Muscles, Latent “Threats”: Contesting the Exceptional and Threatening Status of Trans Women in Strength Sports

3. Fit to Mother: Risk and Self-Care in the Pregnant Strength Athlete

Interlude 2: Deep Analogies and the Power of Heavy Lifting

Part II: The Disciplined Body

4. Women’s Empowerment through Strength Sports-and Its Limits: The Case of the German American Turners, 1880s?1920s

5. On Death and Fitness: Hero Workouts, US Militarism, and the Necrosociality of CrossFit

Interlude 3: “Be Careful, If You Lift too Heavy Your Boobs Will Shrink”

Part III: The Social Body

6. Transformative Writing and Naming: Gimnasio Elba y Celina

7. Between My Breaths: CrossFit As A Depathologizing Healing Strategy for Sexual Trauma Survivors

8. ‘I Exercise with Others in About 6-7 Online Fitness Communities’: Women’s Exercise Routine and Resilience During COVID-19 Stay-at-Home Orders

Epilogue - Judging the Lift: Are Strength Sports Insurgent or Reactionary Practices?

Index