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

Contributors

Contributors 쮿 157 Contributors Lynn Z. Bloom is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor and Aetna Chair of Writing at the University of Connecticut. Her twenty-five-plus books range from biography, Doctor Spock: Biography of a Conservative Radical (1972) to a feminist manifesto, The New Assertive Woman (coauthored, 1975, 1999); to pedagogy, Writers Without Borders: Writing and Teaching Writing in Troubled Times (2008). Creative nonfiction is embodied in all of her current work, including The Seven Deadly Virtues and Other Lively Essays (2008) and “Consuming Prose: The Delectable Rhetoric of Food Writing” (2008). Every day includes a trip to the gym. Victoria Boynton is associate professor of English at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Cortland. She teaches in the Professional Writing Program. Her publications include Herspace: Women, Writing, and Solitude (2003,) with Jo Malin, and the Encyclopedia of Women’s Autobiography, also with Malin. Boynton also writes fiction and poetry, publishing in such journals as Calyx, Verse, Harpur Palate , Heliotrope, and Faultline. She won in 2005 the Roseanne Brooks Dedicated Teacher Award. Jacqueline Brady is assistant professor of English at Kingsborough Community College (CUNY) in Brooklyn, New York. Her research is on the cultural history of bodybuilding in the United States, and she has completed a book manuscript titled “Minding Muscle: The Technologies of Bodybuilding from the Turn of the Century MachineMan to the New Millennium’s UltraGirl.” Beth Widmaier-Capo is assistant professor of English at Illinois College . Her book, Textual Contraception: Birth Control and Modern American Fiction, was published by Ohio State University Press in October 2007. Her research interests include American women writers, cultural studies, contemporary fiction, and the intersection of literature and medicine. She also enjoys running and swimming. 157 158 쮿 My Life at the Gym Virginia Corrie-Cozart is a retired music educator, living with her husband in Salem, Oregon. Her book of poetry, A Mutable Place, was published in 2003 by Traprock Books. Myrl Coulter, teaches English at the University of Alberta. Her dissertation , “Feminism, Motherhood, Jane Urquhart, Carol Shields, Margaret Laurence, and Me,” explores the relationships that connect feminism, motherhood, fiction, and autobiography. Her research and writing interests are feminist and maternal theory, women’s writing and autobiography, and creative nonfiction and popular culture. Grace D’Alo is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University and Dickinson School of Law. She currently is the manager of a legal services office in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. She has worked as a lawyer for the Pennsylvania Department of Education and as a writing consultant/ evaluator of the Commonwealth’s special education hearing officers and Special Education Appeal Panel members. She is a mediator and trainer for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and an adjunct professor at Penn State Dickinson School of Law, where she teaches legal writing and analysis in the LLM (Master of Laws) program. She has published scholarly articles in the Harvard Negotiation Law Review, Harvard Negotiation Journal, and the Penn State Dickinson Law Review. Catherine Houser has worked as a journalist and public relations specialist. Currently she teaches creative writing at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. She lives on Cape Cod, where she works out regularly in a woman-owned gym. Marlene Jensen has worked as a reporter, an editor, and a columnist at several newspapers and magazines. Presently she is a freelance columnist at The Daily Times and ShoreWoman magazine in Salisbury, Maryland, and an elementary school substitute teacher. Jo Malin is a project director and grants specialist in the School of Education and adjunct assistant professor of English at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton. Her previous books are The Voice of the Mother: Embedded Maternal Narratives in Twentieth Century Women’s Autobiographies (2000), Herspace: Women, Writing and Solitude (2003), and Encyclopedia of Women’s Autobiography (2005). Anne Mamary is associate professor of philosophy at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois. She is coeditor, with Gertrude James Gonzalez, of Cultural Activisms: Poetic Voices, Political Voices (State Contributors 쮿 159 University of New York Press, 1999) and has been dancing since 1990 with the B. F. Harridans. Kristine Newhall is a doctoral student in women’s studies at the University of Iowa and is now living and researching in western Massachusetts . Currently she is examining intersections of feminist activism and sport in the United States in the 1970s. Other interests (research and otherwise) include gender and the gym, biking, softball, articulating intersectionality in sporting practices...