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Eugenics and Physical Culture Performance in the Progressive Era

Watch Whiteness Workout
BuchKartoniert, Paperback
202 Seiten
Englisch
Springererschienen am17.11.20211st ed. 2020
This book strives to unmask the racial inequity at the root of the emergence of modern physical culture systems in the US Progressive Era (1890s-1920s). This book focuses on physical culture - systematic, non-competitive exercise performed under the direction of an expert - because tracing how people practiced physical culture in the Progressive Era, especially middle- and upper-class white women, reveals how modes of popular performance, institutional regulation, and ideologies of individualism and motherhood combined to sublimate whiteness beneath the veneer of liberal progressivism and reform. The sites in this book give the fullest picture of the different strata of physical culture for white women during that time and demonstrate the unracialization of whiteness through physical culture practices. By illuminating the ways in which whiteness in the US became a default identity category absorbed into the universal ideals of culture, arts, and sciences, the author shows how physical culture circulated as a popular performance form with its own conventions, audience, and promised profitability. Finally, the chapters reveal troubling connections between the daily habits physical culturists promoted and the eugenics movement´s drive towards more reproductively efficient white bodies. By examining these written, visual, and embodied texts, the author insists on a closer scrutiny of the implicit whiteness of physical culture and forwards it as a crucial site of analysis for performance scholars interested in how corporeality is marshaled by and able to contest local and global systems of power.mehr
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KlappentextThis book strives to unmask the racial inequity at the root of the emergence of modern physical culture systems in the US Progressive Era (1890s-1920s). This book focuses on physical culture - systematic, non-competitive exercise performed under the direction of an expert - because tracing how people practiced physical culture in the Progressive Era, especially middle- and upper-class white women, reveals how modes of popular performance, institutional regulation, and ideologies of individualism and motherhood combined to sublimate whiteness beneath the veneer of liberal progressivism and reform. The sites in this book give the fullest picture of the different strata of physical culture for white women during that time and demonstrate the unracialization of whiteness through physical culture practices. By illuminating the ways in which whiteness in the US became a default identity category absorbed into the universal ideals of culture, arts, and sciences, the author shows how physical culture circulated as a popular performance form with its own conventions, audience, and promised profitability. Finally, the chapters reveal troubling connections between the daily habits physical culturists promoted and the eugenics movement´s drive towards more reproductively efficient white bodies. By examining these written, visual, and embodied texts, the author insists on a closer scrutiny of the implicit whiteness of physical culture and forwards it as a crucial site of analysis for performance scholars interested in how corporeality is marshaled by and able to contest local and global systems of power.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-3-030-58766-6
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2021
Erscheinungsdatum17.11.2021
Auflage1st ed. 2020
ReihePalgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
Seiten202 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
IllustrationenXIV, 202 p. 9 illus., 1 illus. in color.
Artikel-Nr.50265380

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1: Introduction: Exorcising a Forgotten Physical Culture.- Chapter 2: Progressive Era Physical Culture and the Aesthetics of Whiteness.- Chapter 3: Dudley Allen Sargent´s Classed and Classing Fitness: Nature, Science, and Mimetic Exercise.- Chapter 4: These Walls Could Not Contain Me : Social Motherhood at the YWCA.- Chapter 5: Racialized Surrogates in Bernarr Macfadden´s Physical Culture.- Chapter 6: Exercise for Assimilation: Physical Culture for Indigenous Girls and Women.- Conclusion: Community Fitness for Social Change?mehr