Fit citizens :: a history of Black women's exercise from post-Reconstruction to postwar America /

"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 histor...

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1. Verfasser: Purkiss, Ava (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]
Schriftenreihe:Gender & American culture.
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Zusammenfassung:"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"--
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiii, 231 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781469670492
1469670496
9781469670508
146967050X
9798890855008

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