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Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change: An Intersectional Feminist Analysis

Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change: An Intersectional Feminist Analysis

by Melanie Klein (Editor), Melanie Klein (Editor), Beth Berila (Editor), Chelsea Jackson Roberts (Editor)

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Synopsis

Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change examines the cultural phenomenon of yoga in the United States through an intersectional feminist lens. The essays in this collection address media portrayals as well as yoga spaces themselves, analyzing who has been centered and who has been marginalized by racial, gender, sexual, economic and dis/ability power dynamics. By analyzing contemporary body politics in the U.S. yoga sphere, Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change looks at both the limitations and possibilities of yoga for feminist social justice.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 358
 Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 15 Sep 2016
ISBN 10: 1498528023
ISBN 13: 9781498528023

Media Reviews
Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change invites us into a vibrant conversation about what yoga as a practice of freedom might look like. Drawing on rich narratives and research about yoga's transnational history, this volume protests attempts to strip mine yoga, to reduce it to a windowless commodity. The book is essential reading for yogis, activists, and scholars who do not want to reinforce white supremacy and other exclusions. A celebration of a vital grassroots movement that honors the human body in all its manifestations, this book illuminates yoga as an act of resistance, a way of creating justice in our many communities. -- Becky Thompson, Simmons College
This is an exciting and unique collection exploring feminist literature on yoga, body politics, mindfulness, and social justice. Berila, Klein, and Roberts bring together an impressively diverse and interdisciplinary array of authors-from academic fields such as Africana Studies, anthropology, education, English, health sciences, history, justice and social inquiry, political science, sociology, sports studies, and Women's & Gender Studies, as well as craniosacral therapists, meditation and yoga instructors, and activists-to critically explore the gendered, racialized, and queer politics of yoga. Authors emphasize the liberatory potential of yoga, particularly for marginalized groups. It will be useful not only for feminist teachers and scholars, but also social justice activists and yogis. -- Christa Craven, The College of Wooster
Author Bio
Beth Berila is professor of ethnic and women's studies at St. Cloud State University. Melanie Klein is an associate professor of sociology and women's studies at Santa Monica College. Chelsea Jackson Roberts is founder and director of yoga, literature, and art at Spelman College.