My dissertation has been coming along very nicely after I really delved into the female bodybuilding chapter. This chapter was needing a lot of tweaking as i had not fully formed it yet, there is little parts of editing that still need to be done for this chapter to be finished. I made a case study of retired body builder Bev Francis and made a comparison of her body shape and image through out the seven years she competed for the Ms. Olympia contest from 1983 to 1991 when she subsequently came second again. I Made the comparison of her image as she transformed her body to a more feminine body ideal where she adorned herself with pink bikinis, blonde hair and more excessive makeup. I am currently writing up my ethnographic research on my findings in the gym environment on gender performance which is proving incredibly interesting and illuminating on the mechanics of mundane gender acts.
Dissertation work.
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