Hello....
For anyone interested in the REAL TRUE HISTORY (a.k.a. "In the Beginning") of female bodybuilding and female strongwomen/strength-athletes (which PRECEDES the likes of Lisa Lyons, Rachel, etc., etc., by several DECADES), then I refer you to the following references...
-VHS videotape: Women and Weights: An Illustrated History
-The book: Physical Culture and the Body Beautiful: Purposeful Exercise in the Lives of American Women
both prepared/written by Jan Todd, Ph.D., who is an instructor in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education at the University of Texas at Austin, TX.
Of course, anyone who knows the first thing about female powerlifters/strength-athletes knows that Jan Todd has truly "paid-her-dues" in the iron-game by setting several powerlifting records in the 1980's (at the time, both Sports Illustrated and the Guiness Book of World Records acclaimed Jan as the "strongest woman in the world") while varying her bodyweight from approx. 160 lbs. up to 230 lbs. and then back down again to approx. 145 SHAPELY lbs. (where she could still deadlift over 450 lbs.!), and all of this was accomplished DRUG-FREE (as she was drug-tested several times).
And, as we all know, any girl/woman who weight-trains to improve their appearance/strength/health is, by definition, a "bodybuilder"!
Thus, female bodybuilders are NOT just those women who compete in BB contests...which actually have been going on since the 1940's, AT LEAST...why, actually the great physical culture pioneer, Bernarr McFadden, had female "body-beautiful" contests for "athletic women" in the early 1900's (uhhh...many of the women who competed in these body beautiful contests, approx. 100 years ago, also weight-trained!).
So guys, "get-up-to-speed" on the REAL, rich, history of female bodybuilding, strongwomen, and strength athletes, in the face of extreme media prejudice and general public ignorance/criticism...talk about PIONEERS!!