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  • Demystifying American Yoga
    Sarah Hentges
    American yoga is often (mis)understood as elitist and exclusionary--as a pursuit of fitness practiced by bendable, beautiful bodies. It is commodified and marketed as a variety of expensive brands and disposable trends. The focus on the physical overshadows yoga’s elements of conscious breath, mindful meditation, deep philosophy, and transformative healing. Or, yoga is assum...
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    42,71 €

  • Teaching Girls on Fire
    Sarah Hentges
    The rise of YA dystopian literature has seen an explosion of female protagonists who are stirring young people’s interest in social and political topics, awakening their civic imagination, and inspiring them to work for change. These 'Girls on Fire' are intersectional and multidimensional characters. They are leaders in their communities and they challenge injustice and limi...
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    68,23 €

  • Girls on Fire
    Sarah Hentges
    Under the threat of climate change, corruption, inequality and injustice, Americans may feel they are living in a dystopian novel come to life. Like many American narratives, dystopian stories often focus on males as the agents of social change. With a focus on the intersections of race, gender, class, sexuality and power, the author analyzes the themes, issues and charact...
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    42,59 €

  • Women and Fitness in American Culture
    Sarah Hentges
    This book explores common representations and experiences of American fitness. It takes women’s experiences as the center of inquiry toward an understanding of the function of fitness in our lives and in our culture-at-large. Ranging from 1968 to the present, from Jane Fonda to WiiFit, from revolution to institutionalization, from personal to political, and beyond, this book...
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    42,71 €

  • Pictures of Girlhood
    Sarah Hentges
    Although the 'coming of age' story has been a popular film plot for decades, producers have only recently realized the commercial potential of targeting films to adolescent girls. Movies like Clueless, Legally Blonde and Mean Girls have been successfully marketed to teenage girls, as have several well-known independent films. Important as both cultural indicators and catalys...
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    42,70 €