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

"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Purkiss, Ava
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2023.
Series:Gender and American Culture Series.
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