| 书目名称 | Eugenics and Physical Culture Performance in the Progressive Era |
| 副标题 | Watch Whiteness Work |
| 编辑 | Shannon L. Walsh |
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| 概述 | Traces how various sites of Progressive Era (1890–1920) physical culture performance became sites of whiteness-in-the-making.Demonstrates the de-racialization of whiteness through physical culture pra |
| 丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History |
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| 描述 | 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 |
| 出版日期 | Book 2020 |
| 关键词 | Physical fitness; Dance; Feminism; New Woman; Eugenics; Race; Jim Crow; Kinesiology |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58764-2 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-58766-6 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-58764-2Series ISSN 2947-5767 Series E-ISSN 2947-5775 |
| issn_series | 2947-5767 |
| copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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