Queering and Cripping the "Yoga Body"

ISBN-13: 9781032505435 / Twarda / 2024 / 176 str.

Laura Shears

Opis

Queering and Cripping the “Yoga Body” deconstructs the power relations that shape the image of a healthy, natural, gendered body performing a postural yoga practice. It will be of interest to students and researchers of embodiment, poststructuralism, queer theory, or disability studies, as well as practitioners of yoga.

Recenzje

"Foregrounding their own positionality as a yoga practitioner and instructor, Shears fluidly moves in, around, and with complex theories of embodiment and power to think differently about current (and dominant) yoga educational programming, discourse, and practice. The work is bold, rigorous, deeply reflective, and beautifully written. More than an academic debate, this book is for anyone who wants to trouble the normalizing practices that narrowly define specific subjectivities in relation to those teaching and practicing yoga."

Dr. Alecia Jackson, Professor, Appalachian State University, USA

Spis treści

1. Introduction and Theoretical Framework Part I: Yoga Practice 2. Yoga as a Measurable, Medical Intervention: How Yoga Effectiveness Research Contributes to a Discourse of Productive, Manageable Bodies  3. Yoga as a Healthy, Natural Intervention: How Yoga Effectiveness Research Contributes to a Discourse of Moral, Independent Bodies  4. The Yoga Practice as Functional Movement: How Yoga-Related Media Contributes to the Developing Subjectivities of Yoga Practitioners   Part II: Yoga Teaching   5. Yoga Teachers as Self-Monitoring Bodies: How Relations of Power Surrounding Yoga Alliance Contribute to the Developing Subjectivities of Yoga Teachers  6. Yoga Teachers as Strong, Docile Bodies: How Discourses Surrounding Yoga Teacher Training Programs Shape the Subjectivities of Yoga Teachers  Part III: Yoga, Embodiment, and Resistance  7. Yoga as an Act of Resistance: Thinking with the Queer and Disabled Body  8. Yoga as Union: Tentative Integrations  Appendix A: Post-Qualitative Inquiry

O autorze

Laura Shears has an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership from Appalachian State University in Boone, NC, USA and is a yoga teacher and practitioner.