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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809288003321

Titolo

Yoga, the body, and embodied social change : an intersectional feminist analysis / / edited by Beth Berila, Melanie Klein, and Chelsea Jackson Roberts

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-4985-2803-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (358 p.)

Disciplina

305.4209

Soggetti

Feminism - History - 21st century

Yoga

Social change

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 MeChapter 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

Sommario/riassunto

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.