Fit Citizens A History of Black Women's Exercise from Post-Reconstruction to Postwar America.

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"Ava Purkiss examines how Black women demonstrated their literal and figurative 'fitness' for citizenship through exercise. Using public health records, beauty columns, physical education reports, cookbooks, newspapers, and magazines, she centers race and gender; challenges how histor...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Purkiss, Ava
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2023.
Colección:Gender and American Culture Series.
Temas:
1900-1999
Citizenship > United States.
Physical fitness for women > United States.
Body image in women > United States > History > 20th century.
African American women > Health and hygiene > United States > History > 20th century.
Condition physique des femmes > États-Unis.
Image du corps chez la femme > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Noires américaines > Santé et hygiène > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Physical fitness for women
Citizenship
Body image in women
African American women > Health and hygiene
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"Ava Purkiss examines how Black women demonstrated their literal and figurative 'fitness' for citizenship through exercise. Using public health records, beauty columns, physical education reports, cookbooks, newspapers, and magazines, she centers race and gender; challenges how historians have written about the relationship between physical fitness, civic fitness, and national belonging; and provides historical context for numerous public health studies concerned with the health of African American women and girls"--
Notas:Description based upon print version of record.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (248 p.).
ISBN:146967050X
9781469670508

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