Body Language: Sisters in Shape, Black Women's Fitness, and Feminist Identity Politics

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Index Abject, 79, 100, 105 Activism: and articulation theory, 32; through cooking, 94–96; definition of, 21; through the gym as raced space, 123–124; and revising black womanhood , 85–86, 105; and self-esteem, 133 Agency, 33, 78 Anderson, Benedict, 17, 19 Angier, natalie, 112 Articulation theory, 26–32 Beauboeuf-lafontant, Tamara, 9–10, 88, 113, 138 Beauvoir, simone de, 78–79 Bickford, susan, 4 Black men, 83, 114–121 Black womanhood, 77–105; black men’s valuation of, 114–121; and competition , 60–70; and domesticity, 88–97; and empowerment, 61; myth of the strong black woman, 8–10, 88, 115– 117, 120; and performativity, 33–34; and white heteronormative standards, 49, 82–84, 91–95, 107, 111–114, 118, 126, 133 Bodybuilding, 10 Brown, Wendy, 35–36, 143–145, 158 Butler, Judith, 5, 33, 78–80, 100 California Task Force on self-esteem, 153. See also self-esteem Cannon, Katie, 44 Clifford, James, 30–31 Collins, patricia Hill, 39, 109, 134, 140 Competition (“ultracompetitive”), 45, 60–67 Difference feminists, 4–6. See also Feminist theory Disavowal, 79–80, 83–86, 99–100, 102, 105 Discourse: and agency, 78; and articulation theory, 28–29; and embodiment, 32–37, 76; and experience, 33, 37, 41, 108; extradiscursive experience, 70–76; and performance, 77–78, 85; sisters in shape’s discursive practices, 6, 19, 33, 42, 85, 140 Driscoll, mark, 31 Dworkin, shari l., 21, 116 embodiment: and articulation theory, 27–29, 32; bodily practices and 186 \ Index spirituality, 46; the body to come, 155– 158, 162; and discourse, 32–37, 76; and experience, 40, 45, 161–163; and feeling , 131–133, 161; identification with black women’s bodies, 82–87; and the limits of language, 32, 70–76, 131; and subjectivity, 32–37; white heteronormative standards, 49, 82–84, 91–95, 107, 111–114, 118, 126, 133. See also selfesteem ; Black womanhood empowerment: and black womanist ethics , 44; education, 12; and self-esteem, 116–119, 136–139 Essence, 111–114 ethnography, 27, 31–32 Feeling, 131–133, 158 Feminist theory: difference feminists, 4–6; and discourse versus experience, 40–42, 70–71; and identity politics, 36–37, 40, 44, 46, 78, 108–110, 143–163; secondwave feminism, 107, 146, 152; standpoint theory, 5, 34, 107–110, 140–142; theories of gender performativity, 78, 80; womanism, 44, 50, 56, 61 Fluidarity, 31 Food: cooking and domesticity, 87–96, 124–125; fear of, 18, 62; as protection, 138; and self-esteem, 102, 113; and slavery, 94 Foucault, michel, 5 Futurity, 144–145, 155–158 Grosz, elizabeth, 76 Group identity: black group identity, 108, 112; and cooking, 87; of sisters in shape 42, 57–68, 97, 140, 154. See also sisterhood Gym: as community space, 14–15; and competition, 62–68; 121; race and gym culture, 50, 59, 122–126; as social mirror , 121–127 Hall, stuart, 28–30, 159 Haraway, Donna, 110 Hartsock, nancy, 109 Health and Fitness explosion, 11–13 Heywood, leslie, 10, 21 identity: anti-identity, 144; collective or group identity, 5, 16–20, 42–50, 57, 68, 75–76, 159; formation, 29–31, 36–37, 50, 79, 159 identity politics: and agency, 33, 141; and articulation theory, 29, 40; definition of, 3–6; and feminist theory, 36–37, 40, 44, 46, 78, 108–110, 143–163; and futurity, 36; and ressentiment, 144–145, 154 imagined community, 12, 17–20, 82–84 intersectionality: and articulation theory, 166n12; and standpoint theory, 34, 107–109, 140 Kashef, Ziba, 112–113 Kruks, sonia, 36, 40–42, 45, 70–71, 76, 78, 158, 160–162 laclau, ernesto, 28 language: and articulation, 26–29, 32; and discourse, 5, 28; and experience, 40; and identity politics, 144; limits of, 70–76, 131 marchand, melanie: author’s relationship with, 24–25, 159; biography and history of sisters in shape, 1–3, 6–19; and black women’s bodies, 82–85, 132–133; as charismatic leader, 51–55, 57; and competition, 62–69; and domesticity, 90–93; and self-esteem, 116–121, 131, 135–139; and spirituality, 47 melancholy, 79 merleau-ponty, maurice, 71 messner, michael A., 21, 116 möbius strip, 76, 158 moglen, Helene, 80 mohanty, satya p.: and experience, 40–42, 45; and identity politics, 108–109; “realist identity,” 140 nelson, Diane, 30 New York Times, 111–112 embodiment (continued) Index / 187 performance theory, 5, 78, 112 rapping, elayne, 149–154 recovery, 16, 20, 149–154 ressentiment, 35–36, 144–145, 154...