Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change An Intersectional Feminist Analysis

Acknowledgements -- Introduction: what's the link between feminism and yoga? / Beth Berila -- Inclusion/exclusion in yoga spaces / Chelsea Jackson Roberts -- In a field of the color purple : inviting yoga spaces for black women's bodies / Marcelle M. Haddix -- "I'm feelin' it." : embodied spiritual activism as a vehicle for queer black liberation / Jillian Ford -- The gender, race, and class barriers enclosing yoga as a white public space / Enoch H. Page -- Towards yoga as property / Roopa Kaushik-Brown -- Yoga, culture and neoliberal embodiment of health / Kerrie Kauer -- Yoga is not dodgeball : mind-body integration and progressive education / Carol Horton -- The intersection of yoga, body image and standards of beauty / Melanie Klein -- Mainstream representations of yoga : capitalism, consumerism, and control of the female body / Diana York Blaine -- "Work off that holiday meal ladies!" : body vigilance and orthorexia in yoga spaces / Jennifer Musial -- Naked yoga and the sexualization of asana / Sarah Schrank -- Reblog if you feel me : love, blackness, and digital wellness / Maria Velazquez -- Fat pedagogy in the yoga class / Kimberly Dark -- Yoga as individual and collective liberation / Beth Berila -- From practice to praxis : mindful lawyering for social change / Thalia González and Lauren Eckstrom -- Embodiment through purusha and prakrti : feminist yoga as a revolution from within / Punam Mehta -- Yoga and disability / Steffany Moonaz -- Yoga as embodied feminist praxis : healing and community-based responses to violence / Beth S. Catlett and Mary Bunn -- Yoga, postfeminism, and the future / Ariane Balizet and Whitney Myerr -- Queering yoga : an ethic of social justice / Jacoby Ballard and Karishma Kripalani -- Conclusion: (un)learning oppression through yoga : the way forward / Chelsea Jackson Roberts and Melanie Klein