About Leslie Heywood, Ph.D.
A former University of Arizona track and
cross-country runner and currently a power lifter and bodybuilder,
Leslie Heywood is the author of Dedication
to Hunger: The Anorexic Aesthetic in Modern Culture
(California), Bodymakers:
A Cultural Anatomy of Women's Bodybuilding (Rutgers), and the
forthcoming sports memoir Pretty
Good for a Girl (September 1998, The Free Press / Simon &
Schuster). She writes widely on issues of gender, women, popular
culture, and sport, and is an assistant professor of English at the
State University of New York, Binghamton where she teaches cultural and
sports studies, twentieth century literature and theory, and creative
writing.
Articles by Leslie Heywood
Books by Leslie Heywood
