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My life at the gym : feminist perspectives on community through the body / edited by Jo Malin.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feminism.
- Exercise for women--Psychological aspects.
- Exercise for women.
- Dance for women--Psychological aspects.
- Dance for women.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (178 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Personal accounts celebrating the place of exercise in women's lives--and as the site of women's community.
- Contents:
- An elegy for dancing / Christina Pugh
- Kaleidoscope dances / Anne Mamary
- From ballet to boxing: the evolution of a female athlete / Susan Young
- The women's dance / Virginia Corrie-Cozart
- You spin me right round, baby: resistance, potential, and feminist pedagogy in indoor cycling / Kristine Newhall
- Beyond the lone images of the superhuman strongwoman and well-built bombshell toward a new communal vision of muscular women / Jacqueline Brady
- Enduring images / Catherine Houser
- The gymnastics group / Marcia Woodard
- Gym interrupted / Myrl Coulter
- Naked truth / Lynn Z. Bloom
- Women's yoga: a multigenre meditation on language and the body / Victoria Boynton
- "Messing about in boats": rowing as l'ecriture feminine / Shannon Smith
- Women who ski with dogs / Grace D'Alo
- If these roads could talk: life as a woman on the run / Wendy Walter-Bailey
- Walking is an exercise in friendship / Marlene Jensen
- Marathon / Beth Widmaier Capo.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781438429458
- 1438429452
- 9781441634467
- 1441634460
- OCLC:
- 551790231
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