（1.Department of Physical Education，Jinan University ZhuHai Campus，Zhuhai 519000，China；
2.School of Physical Education，South China University of Technology，Guangzhou 510641，China；
3.School of Physical Education & Training，Shanghai University of Sport，Shanghai 200438，China) Abstract: From the body perspective, based on the social recognition theory, the authors focused on the group of female athletes in heavy athletics, gained an insight into their body practice and subject experience by means of qualitative inter-view, and then presented the process of construction of their social recognition. The authors found that the social recogni-tion of female athletes in heavy athletics as a kind of female competitive events with distinctive masculine characteristics is divided into such two forms as body recognition in a competitive state and body recognition in a social gender state. Inside the competition field, female athletes realize self-empowerment through the release of body energy, including body em-powerment brought by the sense of body liberation, the sense of self-efficacy built by positive body cognition, as well as the enhancement of the view of gender equality and self-consciousness, thus establishing body recognition in a competitive state; while outside the competition field, they suffer social physique anxiety and scenario anxiety triggered by muscle strongness, while building social gender recognition. In order to effectively relieve and avoid the occurrence of body anxi-ety, they adopt such two recognition strategies as liquid recognition and optimal trait recognition. The process of social recognition of female athletes in heavy athletics embodies of female athletics’ power conflict between “subject construc-tion” and “object orientation” and their positive self-empowerment.
Key words: heavy athletics；female athlete；body recognition；sport empowerment；body anxiety |
