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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.
List of contents
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: Post-Qualitative Inquiry
About the author
Laura Shears has an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership from Appalachian State University in Boone, NC, USA and is a yoga teacher and practitioner.
Summary
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.
