Fit Citizens : : a History of Black Women's Exercise From Post-Reconstruction to Postwar America
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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.
"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.
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SERIES
Gender and American culture
PUBLISHED
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]
Year Published: 2023
Description: 231 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781469672724
SUBJECTS
African American women -- History -- United States -- 20th century.
Body image in women -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Physical fitness for women -- United States.
Citizenship -- United States.