Fit citizens : a history of Black women's exercise from post-Reconstruction to postwar America
Record details
- ISBN: 1469672723
- ISBN: 9781469672724
- ISBN: 1469670488
- ISBN: 9781469670485
- ISBN: 9798890855008
- ISBN: 146967050X
- ISBN: 9781469670508
- ISBN: 1469670496
- ISBN: 9781469670492
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiii, 231 pages) : illustrations.
remote - Publisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]
- Copyright: ©2023
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Biographical or Historical Data: | Ava Purkiss is assistant professor of women's and gender studies and American culture at the University of Michigan. |
Source of Description Note: | Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR platform, viewed May 22, 2024). |
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Genre: | electronic book > ebook History |