#1025 Katie Rose Hejtmanek - Gender and Power in Strength Sports: Strong As Feminist
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Hello, everybody, welcome to a new episode of The Desenter. I'm your host, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Katie Rose Hekmanek. She's professor in the department of anthropology and the children and youth studies program at Brooklyn College, Cooney. And she's co editor of a book we're going to talk about today Gender and Pow in Strength Sports, Strong as Feminist. So Katie, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to everyone. Thank you, Ricardo. I'm very very excited to be here.
So uh tell us first, what is the premise of this book? Exactly. So the book is Um an a sort of investigation of strength sports, which is a particular kind of sport uh based on Uh
power and brute force. So strength, the the premise of the book is to move weight. Um And to a cause kind of investigate that from a feminist perspective. A couple of friends and I got together to we were all some sort of strength athlete and we decided to we only see a certain kind of people. There's all these interesting things happening in our gyms. And so we decided to see if there was an interest to put something together. um on the concept of strength sports from an interdisciplinary, but really a kind of pointed feminist perspective.
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