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My Life at the Gym: Feminist Perspectives on Community Through the Body

My Life at the Gym: Feminist Perspectives on Community Through the Body

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Women's HealthGeneral FitnessWomen's Studies

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ISBN10: 1438429444
ISBN13: 9781438429441
Publisher: Excelsior Ed
Published: Dec 16 2009
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.70
Language: English
Very often, my workouts are the best part of my day, notes feminist writer Jo Malin. My Life at the Gym celebrates women's experiences of exercise and the found spaces for this activity as places of community with other women. Neither elite athletes nor dancers, the contributors to this volume are well aware of the negative cultural messages about women's bodies that may influence body work. Yet, like many women, they have found comfortable and healthful spaces that allow them to enjoy exercise and take care of the physical needs of their bodies. Through diverse essays, personal accounts, and poems, contributors portray everyday lives in which meaning comes from movement and from the companions they move with in a variety of activities from running, walking, swimming, and skiing to boxing, Morris dancing, and yoga, among others. A unique, positive, and largely unremarked view of exercise and its place in women's lives, this book will resonate with and inspire many readers.

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