Title Fit citizens : a history of Black women's exercise from post-Reconstruction to postwar America / Ava Purkiss

Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023] ©2023

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 231 pages) : illustrations Series Gender and American Culture Series Gender & American culture Contents Exercising citizenship -- Making fit citizens: race, gender, and the rise of physical culture -- Healthy bodies: Black women's exercise and public health in the early twentieth century -- Plenty of good exercise: beauty, fatness, and the fit Black female body in the interwar years -- Never idle: Black women's active recreation during the Great Depression -- 34-24-36: Black women's diet, exercise, and fitness in the postwar era -- The possibilities and pitfalls of Black fitness Summary "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 historians have written about the relationship between physical fitness, civic fitness, and national belonging; and provides historical context for numerous public health studies concerned with the health of African American women and girls"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Ava Purkiss is assistant professor of women's and gender studies and American culture at the University of Michigan Print version record Subject African American women -- Health and hygiene -- United States -- History -- 20th century Body image in women -- United States -- History -- 20th century Physical fitness for women -- United States Citizenship -- United States SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies Physical fitness for women Citizenship Body image in women African American women -- Health and hygiene Health, relationships & personal development. Health and Wellbeing. United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781469670492 1469670496 9781469670508 146967050X

Other Titles History of Black women's exercise from post-Reconstruction to postwar America

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