Body Language - Sisters in Shape, Black Women´s Fitness, and Feminist Identity Politics 2011.pdf

文档介绍：Body Language
Body Language
Sisters in Shape,
Black Women’s Fitness, and
Feminist Identity Politics
Kimberly J. Lau
Temple University Press
Philadelphia
Temple University Press
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122
press
Copyright © 2011 by Temple University
All rights reserved
Published 2011
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lau, Kimberly J.
â Body language : sisters in shape, black women’s fitness, and feminist identity politics /
Kimberly J. Lau.
  p. cm.
 ncludes bibliographical references and index.
 IBN 978-1-4399-0308-7 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-4399-0309-4
(pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-4399-0310-0 (e-book)
â 1.â Feminism—United States.â 2.â Feminist theory—Political aspects.â 3.â Group
identity—United States.â 4.â African American women—Social conditions.â 5.⠀elf-care,
Health—United States.â 6.â Women—Socialization—United States.⠀.â Title.
â 2011
â '896073—dc22
2011002813
The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National
Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials,
ANSI -1992
Printed in the United States of America
2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1
For Melanie Marchand and the women of Sisters in Shape
Contents
Acknowledgments ix
1â The Anatomy of a Movement 1
2â Experience: Spirituality, Sisterhood, and the Unspeakable 39
3â Performance: Negotiating Multiple Black Womanhoods 77
4â New Bodies of Knowledge 107
5â Rearticulating Feminist Identity Politics 143
Notes 165
References 171
Index 185
Acknowledgments
ne of the ideas that I grapple with in Body Language con-
cerns the limitations of language—the moments when lan-
Oguage fails us, when our experiences and feelings seem to
exceed discourse. This is one of those moments. Body Language would
not have been possible without the love and labor of many people, and
I attempt to thank them here, though I know that words simply cann