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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berila, Beth, editor.

Klein, Melanie, editor.

Roberts, Chelsea Jackson, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism--History--21st century.

Feminism.

Yoga.

Social change.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

vii, 348 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016]

Summary:

Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change examine the cultural phenomenon of Yoga in the United States through an intersectional feminist lens. The chapters 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 powers dynamics. By analyzing contemporary body politics in the U.S. yoga sphere, this book books at both the limitations and possibilities of yoga for feminist social justice. Book jacket.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Introduction: what's the link between feminism and yoga? / Beth Berila

Inclusion/exclusion in yoga spaces / Chelsea Jackson Roberts

In a field of the color purple : inviting yoga spaces for black women's bodies / Marcelle M. Haddix

"I'm feelin' it." : embodied spiritual activism as a vehicle for queer black liberation / Jillian Ford

The gender, race, and class barriers enclosing yoga as a white public space / Enoch H. Page

Towards yoga as property / Roopa Kaushik-Brown

Yoga, culture and neoliberal embodiment of health / Kerrie Kauer

Yoga is not dodgeball : mind-body integration and progressive education / Carol Horton

The intersection of yoga, body image and standards of beauty / Melanie Klein

Mainstream representations of yoga : capitalism, consumerism, and control of the female body / Diana York Blaine

"Work off that holiday meal ladies!" : body vigilance and orthorexia in yoga spaces / Jennifer Musial

Naked yoga and the sexualization of asana / Sarah Schrank

Reblog if you feel me : love, blackness, and digital wellness / Maria Velazquez

Fat pedagogy in the yoga class / Kimberly Dark

Yoga as individual and collective liberation / Beth Berila

From practice to praxis : mindful lawyering for social change / Thalia González and Lauren Eckstrom

Embodiment through purusha and prakrti : feminist yoga as a revolution from within / Punam Mehta

Yoga and disability / Steffany Moonaz

Yoga as embodied feminist praxis : healing and community-based responses to violence / Beth S. Catlett and Mary Bunn

Yoga, postfeminism, and the future / Ariane Balizet and Whitney Myerr

Queering yoga : an ethic of social justice / Jacoby Ballard and Karishma Kripalani

Conclusion: (un)learning oppression through yoga : the way forward / Chelsea Jackson Roberts and Melanie Klein.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Yoga, the body, and embodied social change

ISBN:

9781498528023

1498528023

OCLC:

953630875

Publisher Number:

40026455318