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Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change : An Intersectional Feminist Analysis.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (358 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498528030
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social ChangeDDC classification:
  • 305.420973
LOC classification:
  • HQ1155.Y64 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Inclusion/Exclusion in Yoga Spaces -- Chapter One: In a Field of the Color Purple -- Chapter Two: "I'm Feelin' It" -- Chapter Three: The Gender, Race, and Class Barriers -- Chapter Four: Toward Yoga as Property -- Chapter Five: Yoga Culture and Neoliberal Embodiment of Health -- Chapter Six: Yoga is Not Dodgeball -- Part II: The Intersection of Yoga, Body Image, and Standards of Beauty -- Chapter Seven: Mainstream Representations of Yoga -- Chapter Eight: "Work Off That Holiday Meal Ladies!" -- Chapter Nine: Naked Yoga and the Sexualization of Asana -- Chapter Ten: Reblog If You Feel Me -- Chapter Eleven: Fat Pedagogy in the Yoga Class -- Part III: Yoga as Individual and Collective Liberation -- Chapter Twelve: From Practice to Praxis -- Chapter Thirteen: Embodiment through Purusha and Prakrti -- Chapter Fourteen: Yoga and Dis/Ability -- Chapter Fifteen: Yoga as Embodied Feminist Praxis -- Chapter Sixteen: Yoga, Postfeminism, and the Future -- Chapter Seventeen: Queering Yoga -- Conclusion -- Index -- About the Contributors.
Summary: Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change examines the cultural phenomenon of yoga in the United States through an intersectional feminist lens. The essays in this collection address media portrayals as well as yoga spaces themselves, analyzing who has been centered and who has been marginalized by racial, gender, sexual, economic and dis/ability power dynamics. By analyzing contemporary body politics in the U.S. yoga sphere, Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change looks at both the limitations and possibilities of yoga for feminist social justice.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Inclusion/Exclusion in Yoga Spaces -- Chapter One: In a Field of the Color Purple -- Chapter Two: "I'm Feelin' It" -- Chapter Three: The Gender, Race, and Class Barriers -- Chapter Four: Toward Yoga as Property -- Chapter Five: Yoga Culture and Neoliberal Embodiment of Health -- Chapter Six: Yoga is Not Dodgeball -- Part II: The Intersection of Yoga, Body Image, and Standards of Beauty -- Chapter Seven: Mainstream Representations of Yoga -- Chapter Eight: "Work Off That Holiday Meal Ladies!" -- Chapter Nine: Naked Yoga and the Sexualization of Asana -- Chapter Ten: Reblog If You Feel Me -- Chapter Eleven: Fat Pedagogy in the Yoga Class -- Part III: Yoga as Individual and Collective Liberation -- Chapter Twelve: From Practice to Praxis -- Chapter Thirteen: Embodiment through Purusha and Prakrti -- Chapter Fourteen: Yoga and Dis/Ability -- Chapter Fifteen: Yoga as Embodied Feminist Praxis -- Chapter Sixteen: Yoga, Postfeminism, and the Future -- Chapter Seventeen: Queering Yoga -- Conclusion -- Index -- About the Contributors.

Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change examines the cultural phenomenon of yoga in the United States through an intersectional feminist lens. The essays in this collection address media portrayals as well as yoga spaces themselves, analyzing who has been centered and who has been marginalized by racial, gender, sexual, economic and dis/ability power dynamics. By analyzing contemporary body politics in the U.S. yoga sphere, Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change looks at both the limitations and possibilities of yoga for feminist social justice.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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