Laura Shears

Queering and Cripping the "Yoga Body"

Teaching, Practice, and Embodiment

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Produktbeschreibung

Queering and Cripping the "Yoga Body" deconstructs the power relations that shape the image of a healthy, natural, gendered body performing a postural yoga practice. It will be of interest to students and researchers of embodiment, poststructuralism, queer theory, or disability studies, as well as practitioners of yoga.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9781032505435
• ISBN-10: 1032505435
• Artikelnr.: 69482240

Autorenporträt

Laura Shears has an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership from Appalachian State University in Boone, NC, USA and is a yoga teacher and practitioner.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction and Theoretical Framework Part I: Yoga Practice 2. Yoga as
a Measurable, Medical Intervention: How Yoga Effectiveness Research
Contributes to a Discourse of Productive, Manageable Bodies 3. Yoga as a
Healthy, Natural Intervention: How Yoga Effectiveness Research Contributes
to a Discourse of Moral, Independent Bodies 4. The Yoga Practice as
Functional Movement: How Yoga-Related Media Contributes to the Developing
Subjectivities of Yoga Practitioners Part II: Yoga Teaching 5. Yoga
Teachers as Self-Monitoring Bodies: How Relations of Power Surrounding Yoga
Alliance Contribute to the Developing Subjectivities of Yoga Teachers 6.
Yoga Teachers as Strong, Docile Bodies: How Discourses Surrounding Yoga
Teacher Training Programs Shape the Subjectivities of Yoga Teachers Part
III: Yoga, Embodiment, and Resistance 7. Yoga as an Act of Resistance:
Thinking with the Queer and Disabled Body 8. Yoga as Union: Tentative
Integrations Appendix: Post-Qualitative Inquiry