Queering and cripping the "yoga body": teaching, practice, and embodiment

Introduction and theoretical framework -- Yoga as a measurable, medical intervention : how yoga effectiveness research contributes to a discourse of productive, manageable bodies -- Yoga as a healthy, natural intervention : how yoga effectiveness research contributes to a discourse of moral, indepen...

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Main Author: Shears, Laura (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY Routledge, 2024
In:Year: 2024
Further subjects:B Gender Studies / SOCIAL SCIENCE
B Body Image (Western countries)
B Yoga teachers Training of (Western countries)
B Queer Theory
B Exercise for people with disabilities (Western countries)
B Yoga Study and teaching Social aspects (Western countries)
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Parallel Edition:Non-electronic
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Summary:Introduction and theoretical framework -- Yoga as a measurable, medical intervention : how yoga effectiveness research contributes to a discourse of productive, manageable bodies -- Yoga as a healthy, natural intervention : how yoga effectiveness research contributes to a discourse of moral, independent bodies -- The yoga practice as functional movement : how yoga-related media contributes to the developing subjectivities of yoga practitioners -- Yoga teachers as self-monitoring bodies : how relations of power surrounding yoga alliance contribute to the developing subjectivities of yoga teachers -- Yoga teachers as strong, docile bodies : how discourses surrounding yoga teacher training programs shape the subjectivities of yoga teachers -- Yoga as an act of resistance : thinking with the queer and disabled body -- Yoga as union : tentative integrations.
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:1003398952
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.4324/9781003398950