“It’s like Lifting the Power”: Powerlifting, Digital Gendered Subjectivities, and the Politics of Multiplicity

References

• Ahmed, S., Kilby, J., Lury, C., McNeil, M., & Skeggs, B. (2014). Introduction: Thinking through Feminism. In S. Ahmed, J. Kibly, C. Lury, M. McNeil, & B. Skeggs (Eds.), Transformations: Thinking through feminism (pp. 1–23). Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Alhabash, S., & Ma, M. (2017). A tale of four platforms: Motivations and uses of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat among college students. Social Media + Society, 3(1), 205630511769154–205630511769113. https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305117691544
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Barad, K. (2003). Posthumanist performativity: Toward an understanding of how matter comes to matter. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 28(3), 801–831. https://doi.org/10.1086/345321
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Barad, K. (2006). Meeting the Universe halfway: Quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning. Duke University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Berbary, L. (2019). Creative analytic practices: Onto-epistemological and theoretical attachments, uses, and constructions withing humanist qualitative leisure research. Leisure Sciences, 41(3), 148–166. https://doi.org/10.1080/01490400.2018.1526999
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Brace-Govan, J. (2004). Weighty matters: control of women’s access to physical strength. The Sociological Review, 52(4), 503– 531. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954X.2004.00493.x
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Braidotti, R. (2002). Metamorphoses: Towards a materialist theory of becoming. Polity Press.
   Google Scholar
• Bruce, T. (2016). New rules for New Times: Sportswomen and media representation in the third wave. Sex Roles, 74(7–8), 361–376. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-015-0497-6
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Butler, J. (1997). Excitable speech: A politics of the performative. Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Cho, A. (2015). Queer reverb, Tumblr, affect, time. In K. Hillis, S. Paasonen, & M. Petit (Eds.), Networked affect (pp. 43–58). MIT Press.
   Google Scholar
• Clark, A. (2017). Exploring women’s embodied experiences of ‘The Gaze’ in a mix-gendered UK gym. Societies, 8(1), 2–19. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc8010002
   Google Scholar
• Coffey, J. (2019). Creating distance from body issues: Exploring new materialist feminist possibilities for renegotiating gendered embodiment. Leisure Sciences, 41(1–2), 72–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/01490400.2018.1539685
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Coleman, R. (2017). A sensory sociology of the future: Affect, hope and inventive methodologies. The Sociological Review, 65(3), 525–543. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-954X.12445
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Coleman, R., & Ringrose, J. (2013). Introduction: Deleuze and research methodologies. In R. Coleman & J. Ringrose (Eds.), Deleuze and research methodologies (pp. 1–23). Edinburgh University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Davis, N. (2014). Politics materialized: Rethinking the materiality of feminist political action through epigenetics. Women: A Cultural Review, 25(1), 62–77. https://doi.org/10.1080/09574042.2014.901101
   Google Scholar
• Daya, S. (2019). Words and worlds: textual representation and new materialism. Cultural Geographies, 26(3), 361–377. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474019832356
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Deleuze, G. (1994). Difference and repetition (P. Patton, Trans.). Athlone Press.
   Google Scholar
• Deleuze, G. (2005). Cinema 1: The movement-image (H. Tomlinson, & B. Habberjam, Trans.). Athlone Press.
   Google Scholar
• Deleuze, G., & Guattari, F. (1984). Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Athlone Press.
   Google Scholar
• Deleuze, G., & Guattari, F. (1987). A thousand plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (B. Massumi). Athlone Press.
   Google Scholar
• Dworkin, S. L., & Wachs, F. L. (2009). Body panic: Gender, health and the selling of fitness. University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Ferland, P. M., & Comtois, A. S. (2019). Classic powerlifting performance: A systematic review. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 33(1), S194–S201. https://doi.org/10.1519/JSC.0000000000003099
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Fernandez-Lasa, U., Usabiaga Arruabarrena, O., Lozano-Sufrategui, L., & Drew, K. J. (2021). Negotiating alternative femininities? Gender identity construction in female Basque pelota players. Sport, Education and Society, 26(2), 188– 201. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2019.1710699
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fox, N., & Alldred, P. (2013). The sexuality-assemblage: desire, affect, anti-humanism. The Sociological Review, 61(4), 769– 789. http://doi.org/10.1111/1467-954X.12075
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fullagar, S., O’Brien, W., & Pavlidis, A. (2019a). Feminism and a vital politics of depression and recovery. Palgrave Macmillan.
   Google Scholar
• Fullagar, S., Pavlidis, A., & Francombe-Webb, J. (2018). Feminist theories after the poststructuralist turn. In D. Parry (Ed.), Feminisms in leisure studies: Advancing a fourth wave (pp. 33–57). Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Fullagar, S., Rich, E., Pavlidis, A., & van Ingen, C. (2019b). Feminist knowledges as interventions in physical cultures. Leisure Sciences, 41(1-2), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/01490400.2018.1551163
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gatens, M. (1996). Imaginary bodies: Ethics, power and corporeality. Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Gregg, M., & Seigworth, G. (2010). An inventory of shimmers. In M. Gregg & G. Seigworth (Eds.), The affect theory reader (pp. 1–28). Duke University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Griffen, L. (2007). Making bodies. Quest, 5, 1–14.
   Google Scholar
• Hemmings, C. (2012). Affective solidarity: Feminist reflexivity and political transformation. Feminist Theory, 13(2), 147–161. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464700112442643
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Heywood, L. (1998). Bodymakers: A cultural anatomy of women’s body building. Rutgers University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Heywood, L. (2015). The crossfit sensorium: Visuality, affect and immersive sport. Paragraph, 38(1), 20–36. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44016358 https://doi.org/10.3366/para.2015.0144
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Jackson, Y., & Mazzei, L. (2013). Plugging one text into another: Thinking with theory in qualitative research. Qualitative Inquiry, 19(4), 261– 271. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800412471510
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Johnson, A. (2019). Prescribing difference: Masculinity and femininity at crossfit. PhD, Southern Illinois University.
   Google Scholar
• Juelskjaer, M. (2013). Gendered subjectivities of spacetimematter. Gender and Education, 25(6), 754–768. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2013.831812
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kozub, F. M., & Reed, J. D. (2017). Preparing athletes with intellectual disabilities for powerlifting meets. Strength & Conditioning Journal, 39(6), 76–83. https://doi.org/10.1519/SSC.0000000000000344
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Krane, V. (2001). We can be athletic and feminine, but do we want to? Challenging hegemonic femininity in women’s sport. Quest, 53(1), 115–133. https://doi.org/10.1080/00336297.2001.10491733
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kumm, B. E., & Johnson, C. W. (2018). In the garden of domestic dystopia: racial delirium and playful interference. Leisure Studies, 37(6), 692–705. https://doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2018.1501413
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Latella, C., Wei-Peng, T., Spathis, J., & van den Hoek, D. (2020). Long-term strength adaptation: A 15-year analysis of powerlifting athletes. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 34(9), 2412–2418. https://doi.org/10.1519/JSC.0000000000003657
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Leiros-Rodriguez, R., Romo-Perez, V., Perez-Ribao, I., & Garcia-Soidan, J. (2019). A comparison of three physical activity programs for health and fitness tested with older women: Benefits of aerobic activity, aqua fitness, and strength training. Journal of Women and Ageing, 31(5), 419–431. http://doi.org/10.1080/08952841.2018.1510242
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lemmings, D., & Brooks, A. (2016). The emotional turn in the humanities and social sciences. In D. Lemmings & A. Brooks (Eds.), Emotions and social change: Historical and sociological perspectives (pp. 3–18). Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Loewen Walker, R. (2014). The living present as a materialist feminist temporality. Women: A cultural review, 25(1), 46–61. https://doi.org/10.1080/09574042.2014.901107
   Google Scholar
• MacLure, M. (2013). Classification or wonder? Coding as an analytic practice in qualitative research. In R. Coleman & J. Ringrose (Eds.), Deleuze and research methodologies (pp. 164–183). Edinburgh University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Markula, P. (2014). The Moving Body and Social Change. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 14(5), 483– 495. https://doi.org/10.1177/1532708614541892
   Google Scholar
• Markula, P. (2019). What is new about new materialism for sport sociology? Reflections on body, movement, and culture. Sociology of Sport Journal, 36(1), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2018-0064
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Markula, P., & Kennedy, E. (2011). Beyond binaries: Contemporary approaches to women and exercise. In E. Kennedy & P. Markula (Eds.), Women and exercise: The Body, health and consumerism (pp. 1–26). Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• McNaughton, M. (2012). Insurrectionary womanliness: Gender and the (boxing) ring. Qualitative Report, 17(33), 1– 13.
   Google Scholar
• Meân, L. J., & Kassing, J. W. (2008). I would just like to be known as an athlete”: Managing hegemony, femininity, and heterosexuality in female sport. Western Journal of Communication, 72(2), 126– 144. https://doi.org/10.1080/10570310802038564
   Google Scholar
• Misztal, B. (2003). Theories of social remembering. McGraw-Hill Education.
   Google Scholar
• Mondin, A. (2017). Tumblr mostly, great empowering images”: blogging, reblogging and scrolling feminist, queer and BDSM desires. Journal of Gender Studies, 26(3), 282–292. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2017.1287684
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Monteiro, A., Aoki, M., Evangelista, A., Alveno, D., Monteiro, G., da Cruz Picarro, I., & Ugrinowitsch, C. (2009). Nonlinear periodization maximizes strength gains in split resistance training routines. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 23(4), 1321–1326. https://doi.org/10.1519/JSC.0b013e3181a00f96
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Nash, M. (2018). Let’s work on your weaknesses’: Australian CrossFit coaching, masculinity and neoliberal framings of ‘health’ and ‘fitness. Sport in Society, 21(9), 1432–1437. https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2017.1390565
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pybus, J. (2015). Accumulating affect: Social networks and their archives of feelings. In K. Hillis, S. Paasonen, & M. Petit (Eds.), Networked affect (pp. 235–250). MIT Press.
   Google Scholar
• Reade, J. (2021). Keeping it raw on the ‘gram: Authenticity, relatability and digital intimacy in fitness cultures on Instagram. New Media & Society, 23(3), 535–519. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444819891699
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ringrose, J. (2011). Beyond discourse? Using Deleuze and Guattari’s schizoanalysis to explore affective assemblages, heterosexually striated space, and lines of flight online and at school. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 43(6), 598–618. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-5812.2009.00601.x
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ringrose, J., & Coleman, R. (2013). Looking and desiring machines: A feminist Deleuzian mapping of bodies and affects. In R. Coleman & J. Ringrose (Eds.), Deleuze and research methods (pp. 125–144). Edinburgh University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Robards, B., & Lincoln, S. (2017). Uncovering longitudinal life narratives: Scrolling back on Facebook. Qualitative Research, 17(6), 715–730. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794117700707
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rodriquez, P. (2016). Lifting the bar: A history of inclusion, empowerment and the rise of Women’s olympic weightlifting [Masters Thesis]. California State University.
   Google Scholar
• Środa, M., Rogowska-Stangret, M., & Cielemęcka, O. (2014). A quest for feminist space and time. Women: A Cultural Review, 25(1), 114–122. https://doi.org/10.1080/09574042.2014.903785
   Google Scholar
• St. Pierre, E. (2017). Deleuze and Guattari’s language for new empirical inquiry. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 49(11), 1080–1089. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2016.1151761
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stewart, K. (2007). Ordinary affects. Duke University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Thorpe, H. (2014). Moving bodies beyond the social/biological divide: toward theoretical and transdisciplinary adventures. Sport, Education and Society, 19(5), 666–686. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2012.691092
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Tiggemann, M., & Zaccardo, M. (2018). 'Strong is the new skinny': A content analysis of #fitspiration images on Instagram. Journal of Health Psychology, 23(8), 1003–1011. http://doi.org/10.1177/1359105316639436
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Toffoletti, K. (2016). Analyzing media representations of sportswomen-expanding the conceptual boundaries using a postfeminist sensibility. Sociology of Sport Journal, 33(3), 199–207. https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2015-0136
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Toffoletti, K., Thorpe, H., Pavlidis, A., Olive, R., & Moran, C. (2021). Visibility and vulnerability on Instagram: Negotiating safety in women’s online-offline fitness spaces. Leisure Sciences, 1–19. http://doi.org/10.1080/01490400.2021.1884628
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Tsing-Lowenhaupt, A. (2015). The mushroom at the end of the world: On the possibility of life in capitalist ruins. Princeton University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Van Doorn, N. (2011). Digital spaces, material traces: How matter comes to matter in online performances of gender, sexuality and embodiment. Media, Culture & Society, 33(4), 531–547. https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443711398692
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Vertinsky, P. (2010). Introduction: Muscularity and the female body. In D. Chapman, & P. Vertinsky (Eds.), Venus with biceps: A pictorial history of muscular women. Arsenal Pulp Press.
   Google Scholar
• Washington, M., & Economides, M. (2016). Strong is the new sexy: Women, crossfit, and the postfeminist ideal. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 40(2), 143–161. https://doi.org/10.1177/0193723515615181
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wearing, B.Leisure and feminist theory. Sage, London (1998).
   Google Scholar