The pursuit of health and wellness has become a fundamental and familiar part of everyday life in America. We are surrounded by an enticing world of products, practices, and promotions assuring health and happiness--cereal boxes claim that their contents can reduce the risk of heart disease, bars of aromatherapy soap seek to wash away our stresses, newspapers celebrate the wonders of the latest superfoods and herbal remedies. No longer confined to the domain of Western medicine, suggestions for healthy living often turn to alternatives originating in distant times and places, in cultures very...
The pursuit of health and wellness has become a fundamental and familiar part of everyday life in America. We are surrounded by an enticing world of p...
In her evocative ethnographic study, a"Body Language," Kimberly Lau traces the multiple ways in which the success of an innovative fitness program illuminates what identity means to its Black female clientele and how their group interaction provides a new perspective on feminist theories of identity politicsOCoespecially regarding the significance of identity to political activism and social change.
Sisters in Shape, Inc., Fitness Consultants (SIS), a Philadelphia company, promotes balance in physical, mental, and spiritual health. Its program goes beyond workouts, as it educates and...
In her evocative ethnographic study, a"Body Language," Kimberly Lau traces the multiple ways in which the success of an innovative fitness program ...
In the thirty-five years since the publication of "The Bloody Chamber, " Angela Carter's reimagined fairy tales have inspired an impressive body of criticism. Yet none has addressed the ways her fairy tales grapple with and seek to overcome the near impossibility of heterosexual love and desire under patriarchy. In "Erotic Infidelities: Love and Enchantment in Angela Carter's "The Bloody Chamber, author Kimberly J. Lau argues that the strangeness of Carter's fairy-tale enchantments-the moments when love or erotic desire escape the deeply familiar, habitual structures and ideologies that...
In the thirty-five years since the publication of "The Bloody Chamber, " Angela Carter's reimagined fairy tales have inspired an impressive body of...
