My Life at the Gym
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Jo Malin is a Project Director and Grants Specialist in the School of Education and Adjunct Assistant Professor of English at Binghamton University, State University of New York. She is the author of The Voice of the Mother: Embedded Maternal Narratives in Twentieth-Century Women's Autobiographies and the coeditor (with Victoria Boynton) of Encyclopedia of Women's Autobiography and Herspace: Women, Writing, and Solitude.
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List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Jo Malin
PART 1 THE DANCE
1. An Elegy for Dancing
Christina Pugh
2. Kaleidoscope Dances
Anne Mamary
3. From Ballet to Boxing: The Evolution of a Female Athlete
Susan Young
4. The Women's Dance
Virginia Corrie-Cozart
PART 2 THE GYM, WEIGHT ROOM, STUDIO, AND POOL
5. You Spin Me Right Round, Baby: Resistance, Potential, and Feminist Pedagogy in Indoor Cycling
Kristine Newhall
6. Beyond the Lone Images of the Superhuman Strongwoman and Well-Built Bombshell toward a New Communal Vision of Muscular Women
Jacqueline Brady
7. Enduring Images
Catherine Houser
8. The Gymnastics Group
Marcia Woodard
9. Gym Interrupted
Myrl Coulter
10. Naked Truth
Lynn Z. Bloom
11. Women's Yoga: A Multigenre Meditation on Language and the Body
Victoria Boynton
PART 3 ON THE ROAD, THE SLOPES, AND THE LAKE
12. "Messing about in Boats": Rowing as l'Écriture Féminine
Shannon Smith
13. Women Who Ski with Dogs
Grace D'Alo
14. If These Roads Could Talk: Life as a Woman on the Run
Wendy Walter-Bailey
15. Walking Is an Exercise in Friendship
Marlene Jensen
16. Marathon
Beth Widmaier Capo
List of Contributors
Index
