Publications Contributed to by Stark Center Materials
Our collections have supported the research into women’s bodybuilding, the health food industry, gender equity in collegiate sports, strength training pioneers, boxing history and, well, the list is quite extensive. We are honored to have contributed to a better understanding of the role that sport, fitness, and health play in society. Below is brief list of the researchers, and their respective publications, who have found our collections helpful.
Author |
Title |
Publisher or University / Date |
| Adams, Aubrey | Hygieia’s Feast: the Making of America’s Health Food Culture | Dissertation: University of California, Irvine, 2014 |
| Adams, Mark | Mr. America : how muscular millionaire Bernarr Macfadden transformed the nation through sex, salad, and the ultimate starvation diet | Harper, 2009 |
| Bagley, Meredith | Playing fair: the rhetorical limits of liberalism in women’s sport at the University of Texas, 1927-1992 | Dissertation: University of Texas at Austin, 2010 |
| Beckwith, Kimberly Ayn | Building strength: Alan Calvert, the Milo Bar-Bell Company, and the modernization of American weight training | Dissertation: University of Texas at Austin, 2006 |
| Berg, Brennan | Toward sustainable public health programs: a case study of local physical activity approaches | Dissertation: University of Texas at Austin, 2012 |
| Berryman, Jack W. and Roberta J. Park, eds. | Sport and exercise science : essays in the history of sports medicine | University of Illinois Press, 1992 |
| Black, Jonathan | Making the American Body: The Remarkable Saga of the Men and Women Whose Feats, Feuds, and Passions Shaped the Fitness Industry | University of Nebraska Press, 2013 |
| Bourne, Nicholas David | Fast science: A history of training theory and methods for elite runners through 1975 | Dissertation: University of Texas at Austin, 2008 |
| Bowling, Lewis | Resistance training: the total approach (inludes lengthy chapter on history of resistance exercise by Jan and Terry Todd) | Carolina Academic Press, 2007 |
| Bronner, Simon | Manly Traditions | Indiana University Press, 2005 |
| Buck, Joshua Michael | The Development of the Performances of Strongmen in American Vaudeville between 1881 and 1932 | Thesis (M.A.) University of Maryland at College Park |
| Buckland, Gail | Who Shot Sports? | Alfred A. Knopf, 2016 |
| Chapman, David and Patricia Vertinsky | Venus with Biceps: A Pictorial History of Muscular Women | Arsenal Pulp Press |
| Chapman, David L | Sandow the Magnificent | University of Illinois Press, 1994 |
| Chen, Yiming | Analyzing the policy impact of the Olympic strategy on the soccer professionalization in China | Thesis: University of Texas at Austin, 2018 |
| Dimeo, Paul | History of Drug Use in Sport 1876-1976 | Routledge, 2007 |
| Ernst, Robert | Weakness Is a Crime: The Life of Bernarr Macfadden | Syracuse University Press, 1991 |
| Fair, John D | Muscletown USA: Bob Hoffman and the Manly Culture of York Barbell | Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999 |
| Fair, John D | Mr. America: The tragic history of a bodybuilding icon | University of Texas Press, 2015 |
| Fitzpatrick, Shanon | Pulp Empire: Macfadden Publications, Transnational America and the Global Popular | Dissertation: University of California, Irvine, 2013 |
| Foutch, Ellery E. | Arresting beauty: The perfectionist impulse of Peale’s butterflies, Heade’s hummingbirds, Blaschka’s flowers, and Sandow’s body | Dissertation: University of Pennsylvania, 2011 |
| Frueh, Joanna, Laurie Fierstein and Judith Stein, eds | Picturing the Modern Amazon | Rizzoli, 2000 |
| Gerling, Daniel | American wasteland : a social and cultural history of excrement, 1860-1920 | Dissertation: University of Texas at Austin, 2012 |
| Gillerman, Sharon | Jewish Masculinities | Indiana University Press, 2012 |
| Gils, Bieke | Pioneers of flight: An analysis of gender issues in United States civilian(sport) and commercial aviation 1920-1940. | Dissertation: University of Windsor, 2009 |
| Gray, Susan | An examination of selected gender-equity factors in NCAA Division 1-A intercollegiate athletics from 2001-2003 | Dissertation: University of Texas at Austin, 2004 |
| Guttmann, Allen | The Erotic in Sports | Columbia University Press, 1996 |
| Harrell, Baker | Beyond obesity: historical, social change approaches to improve the fitness of Americans | Dissertation: University of Texas at Austin, 2014 |
| Heffernan, Conor | Physical Culture in Ireland: 1893-1939 | Dissertation: University College Dublin, 2019 |
| Heffernan, Conor | Indian Club Swinging in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century India and England | Thesis: University of Cambridge |
| Hemme, Florian | Change in a public-recreation organization: a multiple-case study | Dissertation: University of Texas at Austin, 2017 |
| Hoberman, John | Mortal Engines: The Science of Performance and the Dehumanization of Sport | Free Press, 1992 |
| Hughes, Ellen Roney | Machines for better bodies : a cultural history of exercise machines in America, 1830-1950 | Dissertation: University of Maryland, College Park, 2001 |
| Hunt, Thomas | Drug games: the international politics of doping and the Olympic movement, 1960-2007 | Dissertation: University of Texas at Austin, 2007 |
| Hunt, Thomas | Drug games: the International Olympic Committee and the politics of doping, 1960-2008 | University of Texas Press, 2011 |
| Kasson, John F | Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man: The White Male Body and the Challenge of Modernity in America | Hill and Wang, 2001 |
| Kioussis, George | Exceptions and exceptionalism: the United States Soccer Football Association in a global context, 1950-1974 | Dissertation: University of Texas as Austin, 2015 |
| Kodya, Mark | An exploration of the history of weightlifting as a reflection of the major socio-political events and trends of the 20th century | Dissertation: State University of New York Empire State College, 2005 |
| Kolata, Gina | Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss and the Myths and Realities of Dieting | Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007 |
| Kolata, Gina | Ultimate Fitness: The Quest for Truth About Exercise and Health | Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2003 |
| Kunitz, Daniel | Lift: Fitness Culture, from Naked Greeks and Acrobats to Jazzercise and Ninja Warriors | HarperCollins, 2016 |
| Leamer, Laurence | Fantastic: The Life of Arnold Schwarzenegger | St Martin’s Press, 2005 |
| LeClaire, Chris | Steve Reeves: Worlds to Conquer | Monomoy Books, 1999 |
| Liokaftos, Dimitrios | Genealogy of Male Bodybuilding: from classical to freaky | Taylor & Francis, 2017 |
| Liokaftos, Dimitrios | From ‘Classical’ To ‘Freaky:’ An Exploration of the Development of Dominant, Organised, Male Bodybuilding Culture | University of London, 2012 |
| Lowe, Maria R | Women of Steel: Female Bodybuilders and the Struggle for Self-Definition | New York University Press, 1998 |
| Lowe, Maria Renee | Beauty, strength and grace : a sociological analysis of female bodybuilding | Dissertation: University of Texas at Austin, 1993 |
| Marino, Nicholas | Muscular Articulations: Towards a Theorization of the Interaction between Rhetoric and Physical Fitness | Dissertation: Purdue University, 2017 |
| Morais, Dominic Gray | Strength in numbers : “Strength & Health” brand community from 1932-1964 | Dissertation: University of Texas at Austin, 2015 |
| Morton-Brown, Marla Annette | Physiology as performance: the impact of female body building on the natural attitude | Dissertation: University of Texas at Austin, 2001 |
| Morawski, Erica | “Weakness is a crime, don’t be a criminal” : the construction and dissemination of body images in Physical culture magazine | Dissertation: University of Texas at Austin, 2007 |
| Murtha, Ryan | “When the guns boom”: the 1968 Olympics and the massacre at Tlatelolco | Thesis: University of Texas at Austin, 2018 |
| Ozyurtcu, Tolga | Flex marks the spot: histories of Muscle Beach | Dissertation: University of Texas at Austin, 2014 |
| Padurano, Dominique | Making American men: Charles Atlas and the business of bodies, 1892–1945 | Dissertation: Rutgers The State Univ. of New Jersey, 2007 |
| Palella, John M. | For a Love of Beauty and Strength: “A History of Muscularity, Masculinities, & American Culture, 1880-1973 | Dissertation: State University of New York at Albany, 2016 |
| Pearl, Bill | Legends of the Iron Game (Three Volumes) | Bill Pearl Enterprises, 2010 |
| Pena, Carolyn Thomas de la | The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American | New York University Press, 2003 |
| Pollack, Benjamin Richard | Becoming Jack LaLanne | Dissertation: University of Texas at Austin, 2018 |
| Pope, Harrison G. Jr., Katharine A. Phillips, Roberto Olivardia | The Adonis Complex: The Secret Crisis of Male Body Obsession | Free Press, 2000 |
| Price, Asher | Earl Campbell: yards after contact | University of Texas Press, 2019 |
| Price, Asher | Year of the dunk: a modes defiance of gravity | Crown, 2015 |
| Radley, Alan | The illustrated history of physical culture | Alan Radley, 2001 |
| Roach Randy | Muscle, Smoke and Mirrors Vol. 3 | AuthorHouse |
| Roach Randy | Muscle, Smoke and Mirrors Vol. 2 | AuthorHouse, 2011 |
| Roach, Randy | Muscle, Smoke and Mirrors Vol. 1 | AuthorHouse, 2008 |
| Robbins, Kevin | Harvey Penick: the life and wisdom of the man who wrote the book on golf | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016 |
| Schelfhout, Sam | “It is ‘force majeure'”: the abrupt boycott movements of the 1956 Melbourne Summer Olympic Games | Thesis: University of Texas at Austin, 2017 |
| Shukalo, Alice Marie | Communing with the Gods: Bodybuilding, masculinity, and United States imperialism, 1875–1900 | Dissertation: University of Texas at Austin, 2005 |
| Shurley, Jason | Strength for Sport: The Development of the Professional Strength and Conditioning Coach | Dissertation: University of Texas at Austin, 2013 |
| Silver, Mike | Stars in the Ring: Jewish champions in the golden age of boxing | Rowman & Littlefield, 2016 |
| Tate, Don | Strong Like Sandow | Charlesbridge, 2017 |
| Todd, Janice Suffolk | Physical culture and the body beautiful: An examination of the role of purposive exercise in the lives of American women, 1800-1870 | Dissertation: University of Texas at Austin, 1966 |
| Todd, Terence | The history of resistance exercise and its role in United States education | Dissertation: University of Texas at Austin, 1983 |
| Walsh, Shannon Leigh | Muscular Maternity: Progressive Era Physical Culture, Biopolitics, and Performance | Dissertation: University of Minnesota, 2011 |
| Werbel, Amy | Lust on Trial | Columbia University Press, 2018 |
| Wuestenberg, Pamela | Admission policies for athlets: a survey of NCAA Division 1-A adminssion directors | Dissertation: University of Texas at Austin, 2003 |
