Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change
Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change
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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.
About the Author
About the Author
<p>Beth Berila is professor of ethnic and women’s studies at St. Cloud State University.<br /><br><br /><br>Melanie Klein is an associate professor of sociology and women’s studies at Santa Monica College.<br /><br><br /><br>Chelsea Jackson Roberts is founder and director of yoga, literature, and art at Spelman College.</p><br>
Table of Content
Table of Content
<p>Introduction: Beth Berila, What’s the Link Between Feminism and Yoga?<br /><br><br /><br>Section 1: Chelsea Jackson Roberts, Inclusion/Exclusion in Yoga Spaces<br /><br><br /><br>Ch 1 Marcelle M. Haddix, In a Field of the Color Purple: Inviting Yoga Spaces for Black Women’s Bodies<br /><br>Ch 2 Jillian Ford, “I’m Feelin’ It.”: Embodied Spiritual Activism as a Vehicle for Queer Black Liberation<br /><br>Ch 3 Enoch H. Page, The Gender, Race, and Class Barriers Enclosing Yoga as a White Public<br /><br>Space<br /><br>Ch 4 Roopa Kaushik-Brown, Towards Yoga as Property<br /><br>Ch 5 Kerrie Kauer, Yoga, Culture and Neoliberal Embodiment of Health<br /><br>Ch 6 Carol Horton, Yoga is Not Dodgeball: Mind-Body Integration and Progressive Education<br /><br><br /><br>Section 2: Melanie Klein, The Intersection of Yoga, Body Image and Standards of Beauty<br /><br><br /><br>Ch 7 Diana York Blaine, Mainstream Representations of Yoga: Capitalism, Consumerism, and Control of the Female Body<br /><br>Ch 8 Jennifer Musial, ‘Work Off that Holiday Meal Ladies!’: Body Vigilance and Orthorexia in Yoga Spaces<br /><br>Ch 9 Sarah Schrank, Naked Yoga and the Sexualization of Asana<br /><br>Ch 10 Maria Velazquez, Reblog If You Feel Me: Love, Blackness, and Digital Wellness<br /><br>Ch 11 Kimberly Dark, Fat Pedagogy in the Yoga Class<br /><br><br /><br>Section 3: Beth Berila, Yoga as Individual and Collective Liberation<br /><br><br /><br>Ch 12 Thalia González and Lauren Eckstrom, From Practice to Praxis: Mindful Lawyering for Social Change<br /><br>Ch 13 Punam Mehta, Embodiment Through purusha and prakrti: Feminist Yoga as a Revolution from Within<br /><br>Ch 14 Steffany Moonaz, Yoga and Disability<br /><br>Ch 15 Beth S. Catlett and Mary Bunn, Yoga as Embodied Feminist Praxis: Healing and Community-Based Responses to Violence<br /><br>Ch 16 Ariane Balizet and Whitney Myers, Yoga, Postfeminism, and the Future<br /><br>Ch 17 Jacoby Ballard and Karishma Kripalani, Queering Yoga: An Ethic of Social Justice<br /><br><br /><br>Conclusion: Chelsea Jackson Roberts and Melanie Klein, (Un)Learning Oppression Through Yoga: The Way Forward</p><br>
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