List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Jo Malin PART 1 THE DANCE 1. An Elegy for Dancing Christina Pugh 2. Kaleidoscope Dances Anne Mamary 3. From Ballet to Boxing: The Evolution of a Female Athlete Susan Young 4. The Women's Dance Virginia Corrie-Cozart PART 2 THE GYM, WEIGHT ROOM, STUDIO, AND POOL 5. You Spin Me Right Round, Baby: Resistance, Potential, and Feminist Pedagogy in Indoor Cycling Kristine Newhall 6. Beyond the Lone Images of the Superhuman Strongwoman and Well-Built Bombshell toward a New Communal Vision of Muscular Women Jacqueline Brady 7. Enduring Images Catherine Houser 8. The Gymnastics Group Marcia Woodard 9. Gym Interrupted Myrl Coulter 10. Naked Truth Lynn Z. Bloom 11. Women's Yoga: A Multigenre Meditation on Language and the Body Victoria Boynton PART 3 ON THE ROAD, THE SLOPES, AND THE LAKE 12. "Messing about in Boats": Rowing as l'Ecriture Feminine Shannon Smith 13. Women Who Ski with Dogs Grace D'Alo 14. If These Roads Could Talk: Life as a Woman on the Run Wendy Walter-Bailey 15. Walking Is an Exercise in Friendship Marlene Jensen 16. Marathon Beth Widmaier Capo List of Contributors Index
Jo Malin is a Project Director and Grants Specialist in the School of Education and Adjunct Assistant Professor of English at Binghamton University, State University of New York. She is the author of The Voice of the Mother: Embedded Maternal Narratives in Twentieth-Century Women's Autobiographies and the coeditor (with Victoria Boynton) of Encyclopedia of Women's Autobiography and Herspace: Women, Writing, and Solitude.
"My Life at the Gym brings together essays, poems, and personal narratives of women's experiences in gyms, dance studios, and outdoors. This diverse collection points to an important part of women's everyday experience-exercise and fitness-often ignored by feminists within a number of disciplines. These narratives, thus, will serve as an inspiration for further feminist interdisciplinary insights into women's physical activity." - Pirkko Markula, editor of Feminist Sport Studies: Sharing Experiences of Joy and Pain
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