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Record W4408095972 · doi:10.1080/09589236.2025.2473926

Muscularity and femininity: no longer a contradiction?

2025· article· en· W4408095972 on OpenAlexfundno aff
Bridgette Desjardins

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Gender Studies · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicSports, Gender, and Society
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
KeywordsFemininityContradictionSociologyGender studiesPhilosophyLinguistics

Abstract

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Extant research demonstrates that strength and muscularity are associated with masculinity while femininity is associated with frailty and small, lean physiques. Women with sport performance and/or aesthetic goals requiring muscularity often balance their pursuit of muscularity with mitigation strategies (e.g. emphasizing femininity, limiting amount of muscularity) to reduce risks associated with gender non-conformity. However, analysis of interviews with 41 women who powerlift in Australia suggests that the long-established associations between muscularity and masculinity may be wavering. A significant minority of participants articulate that muscularity is compatible with femininity and do not conceptualize their muscular physiques as contrary to their feminine gender expression. This finding presents a departure from previously studied women athletes’ discourses, wherein muscularity was generally considered contrary to femininity, even among those women who embraced muscularity. Using Deleuzian theory, I analyse how gendered norms may be deterritorialized through sporting practice, enabling lines of flight that challenge women’s embodied subordination.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.007
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.006
Threshold uncertainty score0.022

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.007
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0030.043
Scholarly communication0.0060.010
Open science0.0010.005
Research integrity0.0020.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.073
GPT teacher head0.373
Teacher spread0.301 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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