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

Contents

Contents List of Figures vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Jo Malin PART 1 THE DANCE Chapter 1 An Elegy for Dancing 19 Christina Pugh Chapter 2 Kaleidoscope Dances 31 Anne Mamary Chapter 3 From Ballet to Boxing: The Evolution of a Female Athlete 43 Susan Young Chapter 4 The Women’s Dance 61 Virginia Corrie-Cozart PART 2 THE GYM, WEIGHT ROOM, STUDIO, AND POOL Chapter 5 You Spin Me Right Round, Baby: Resistance, Potential, and Feminist Pedagogy in Indoor Cycling 65 Kristine Newhall Chapter 6 Beyond the Lone Images of the Superhuman Strongwoman and Well-Built Bombshell toward a New Communal Vision of Muscular Women 79 Jacqueline Brady vi 쮿 Contents Chapter 7 Enduring Images 91 Catherine Houser Chapter 8 The Gymnastics Group 95 Marcia Woodard Chapter 9 Gym Interrupted 101 Myrl Coulter Chapter 10 Naked Truth 111 Lynn Z. Bloom Chapter 11 Women’s Yoga: A Multigenre Meditation on Language and the Body 117 Victoria Boynton PART 3 ON THE ROAD, THE SLOPES, AND THE LAKE Chapter 12 “Messing about in Boats”: Rowing as l’Écriture Féminine 125 Shannon Smith Chapter 13 Women Who Ski with Dogs 135 Grace D’Alo Chapter 14 If These Roads Could Talk: Life as a Woman on the Run 145 Wendy Walter-Bailey Chapter 15 Walking Is an Exercise in Friendship 151 Marlene Jensen Chapter 16 Marathon 155 Beth Widmaier Capo List of Contributors 157 Index 161 ...