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Black Women's Yoga History
Stephanie Y. Evans
其他書名
Memoirs of Inner Peace
出版State University of New York Press, 2021-03-01
主題Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black StudiesSocial Science / Women's StudiesPsychology / HistoryHistory / Social HistoryHealth & Fitness / YogaHealth & Fitness / Women's Health
ISBN14384836519781438483658
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=fJj1DwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋How have Black women elders managed stress? In Black Women's Yoga History, Stephanie Y. Evans uses primary sources to answer that question and to show how meditation and yoga from eras of enslavement, segregation, and migration to the Civil Rights, Black Power, and New Age movements have been in existence all along. Life writings by Harriet Jacobs, Sadie and Bessie Delany, Eartha Kitt, Rosa Parks, Jan Willis, and Tina Turner are only a few examples of personal case studies that are included here, illustrating how these women managed traumatic stress, anxiety, and depression. In more than fifty yoga memoirs, Black women discuss practices of reflection, exercise, movement, stretching, visualization, and chanting for self-care. By unveiling the depth of a struggle for wellness, memoirs offer lessons for those who also struggle to heal from personal, cultural, and structural violence. This intellectual history expands conceptions of yoga and defines inner peace as mental health, healing, and wellness that is both compassionate and political.