TABLE 1.

Constructions and discourses.

	Neo-liberal discourse	Health expertise discourse	Discourse of surveillance and control	Discourse of emancipation
The athletic female body constructed as being a self-realization project	×
The athletic female body constructed as a teleological logic	×	×
The athletic female body constructed as maintaining one’s health		×
The athletic female body constructed as self-control and discipline	×	×	×
The athletic female body constructed as a dualism	×		×
The athletic female body constructed as a counterpart to the beauty pressure	×			×