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

Summary: "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"--

Record details

ISBN: 1469672723
ISBN: 9781469672724
ISBN: 1469670488
ISBN: 9781469670485
ISBN: 9798890855008
ISBN: 146967050X
ISBN: 9781469670508
ISBN: 1469670496
ISBN: 9781469670492
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 231 pages) : illustrations.
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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).