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
Autor principal: Purkiss, Ava (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2023.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Physical fitness for women.
Citizenship.
Body image in women.
African American women > Health and hygiene.
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.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Exercising citizenship
  • Making fit citizens: race, gender, and the rise of physical culture
  • Healthy bodies: Black women's exercise and public health in the early twentieth century
  • Plenty of good exercise: beauty, fatness, and the fit Black female body in the interwar years
  • Never idle: Black women's active recreation during the Great Depression
  • 34-24-36: Black women's diet, exercise, and fitness in the postwar era
  • The possibilities and pitfalls of Black fitness.

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