Iron Beauties: Exploring the Psycho-Social Aspects Surrounding Muscular Women and the Men Who Celebrate Them

Increasingly women have thrown off society's expectations and are building intense muscularity. Are these women pioneers who have determined that they desire not only equality of opportunity, but physical equality? Or is their motivation to lift and develop their body just another aspect of the existing patriarchal construct where they are conforming to a subset of men’s physical desires?

Iron Beauties explores the motivations that drive women to build these powerful physiques and how they are viewed by society. It also delves into a growing group of men who revere strong, muscular women and seek their companionship or even domination. These men largely hide their feelings from their friends and fear humiliation and shame but are nevertheless drawn to muscular maidens. Is their admiration for a different kind of beauty for women deviant or the dawning of a new era of appreciation of athletic, muscular women?