Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change: An Intersectional Feminist Analysis by Chelsea Jackson Roberts, Melanie Klein, Beth Berila (Hardcover, 2016)
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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Jacoby Ballard, Ariane M. Balizet, Lauren Eckstrom, Kimberly Dark, Diana York Blaine, Mary Bunn, Beth S. Catlett, Lexington Books
ISBN-13
9781498528023
eBay Product ID (ePID)
227709098
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
356 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change: an Intersectional Feminist Analysis
Publication Year
2016
Subject
Zoology
Type
Textbook
Author
Chelsea Jackson Roberts, Melanie Klein, Beth Berila
Subject Area
Gender Issues
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
238 mm
Item Weight
712 g
Item Width
157 mm
Additional Product Features
Editor
Beth Berila, Chelsea Jackson Roberts, Melanie Klein