Author: Klein, Alan M.
Title: Little Big Men: Bodybuilding Subculture and Gender Construction
Description: Albany, State University of New York, (1993). orig.boards. 23x15cm, ix,326 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: The World of the Bodybuilder: Breaking & Entering: Presupposition & Faux Pas in the Gym; Caste & Class in a Western Gym; The Good, the Bad, & the Indifferent; Muscle''s Moguls: The Political-Economy of Competitive Bodybuilding; Little Big Men of Olymbpic; Subcultural Anaysis of Bodybuilding: Pumping Irony: Crisis & Contradiction in Bodybuilding; Sally's Corner: The Women of Olympic; The Hustler Complex: Narcissism, Homophobia, Hypermasculinity & Authoritarianism; Comic-Book Masculinity & Cultural Fiction.

Keywords: Sociology of Sports, Bodybuilders, Sport, Athletics, United States, Social History, Ethnology, Masculinity, Psychology Gender