Lianne McTavish is Professor of the History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture at the University of Alberta. She is the author of Defining the Modern Museum: A Case Study of the Challenges of Exchange and Childbirth and Childbirth and the Display of Authority in Early Modern France.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Becoming Feminist Figure Girl

1. Measuring Up: Comparing Bodybuilding, Weight Watchers, and Yoga

2. Embodiment and the Event of Muscle Failure

3. Replacing Feminism: Comparing Prochoice Activism with Becoming a Figure Girl

4. On Stage: Performing Feminist Figure Girl

5. Aftermath: The Photographs in My Purse

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