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Ruth Evans
Researcher at Manchester Metropolitan University
Publications - 2
Citations - 166
Ruth Evans is an academic researcher from Manchester Metropolitan University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Public health & Health promotion. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 2 publications receiving 152 citations.
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Femininity and Muscularity: Accounts of Seven Women Body Builders
TL;DR: In this article, the authors interviewed an opportunity sample of seven women body builders, who all compete (or have competed in the past) in Physique-level body building competitions, and they were asked about training details, and motivations for body building including social pressures to become more muscular (and not to becoming more muscular), while emphasising freedom to choose to be muscular within a cultural context where slimness is the norm, they stressed the importance of aspects of traditional femininity.
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Experiences of anabolic steroid use: in-depth interviews with men and women body builders.
TL;DR: It is concluded that intervention programmes need the support of the body building community in order to be effective and Steroid Use vs Abuse; Side-effects; Trusted Information Sources; and Social Pressure emerged.