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9781498528023: Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change: An Intersectional Feminist Analysis
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ISBN 10 : 1498528023 ISBN 13 : 9781498528023
Editeur : Lexington Books, 2016

Synopsis

Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change is the first collection to gather together prominent scholars on yoga and the body. Using an intersectional lens, the essays examine yoga in the United States as a complex cultural phenomenon that reveals racial, economic, gendered, and sexual politics of the body. From discussions of the stereotypical yoga body to analyses of pivotal court cases, Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change examines the sociopolitical tensions of contemporary yoga.

Because so many yogic spaces reflect the oppressive nature of many other public spheres, the essays in this collection also examine what needs to change in order for yoga to truly live up to its liberatory potential, from the blogosphere around Black women's health to the creation of queer and trans yoga classes to the healing potential of yoga for people living with chronic illness or trauma.

While many of these conversations are emerging in the broader public sphere, few have made their way into academic scholarship. This book changes all that. The essays in this anthology interrogate yoga as it is portrayed in the media, yoga spaces, and yoga as it is integrated in education, the law, and concepts of health to examine who is included and who is excluded from yoga in the West. The result is a thoughtful analysis of the possibilities and the limitations of yoga for feminist social transformation.

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À propos des auteurs

Beth Berila is professor of ethnic and women's studies at St. Cloud State University.

Melanie Klein is an associate professor of sociology and women's studies at Santa Monica College.

Chelsea Jackson Roberts is founder and director of yoga, literature, and art at Spelman College.

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Éditeur
Lexington Books
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1498528023
ISBN 13 
9781498528023
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
356
Éditeur
Berila Beth, Klein Melanie, Roberts Chelsea Jackson
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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