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- Summary
- 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 culturists promoted and the eugenics movements drive towards more reproductively efficient white bodies. By examining these written, visual, and embodied texts, the author insists on a closer scrutiny of the implicit whiteness of physical culture and forwards it as a crucial site of analysis for performance scholars interested in how corporeality is marshaled by and able to contest local and global systems of power.Shannon Walsh is an Associate Professor of Theatre History at Louisiana State University, USA. She has published in Theatre Annual and Theatre Journal. She also edited Sporting Performance: Politics in Play (2020). Shannon L. Walsh is Associate Professor of Theatre History at Louisiana State University, USA. She has published in Theatre Annual and Theatre Journal. S he also edited Sporting Performance: Politics in Play (2020)
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 202 pages)
- Isbn
- 9783030587642
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- Eugenics and physical culture performance in the progressive era : watch whiteness workout
- Title
- Eugenics and physical culture performance in the progressive era
- Title remainder
- watch whiteness workout
- Statement of responsibility
- Shannon L. Walsh
- Subject
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- Eugenics -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Eugenics -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Physical fitness -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Physical fitness -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918
- Whites -- United States -- Attitudes | History -- 19th century
- Whites -- United States -- Attitudes | History -- 20th century
- Equality -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Equality -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 culturists promoted and the eugenics movements drive towards more reproductively efficient white bodies. By examining these written, visual, and embodied texts, the author insists on a closer scrutiny of the implicit whiteness of physical culture and forwards it as a crucial site of analysis for performance scholars interested in how corporeality is marshaled by and able to contest local and global systems of power.Shannon Walsh is an Associate Professor of Theatre History at Louisiana State University, USA. She has published in Theatre Annual and Theatre Journal. She also edited Sporting Performance: Politics in Play (2020). Shannon L. Walsh is Associate Professor of Theatre History at Louisiana State University, USA. She has published in Theatre Annual and Theatre Journal. S he also edited Sporting Performance: Politics in Play (2020)
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- Walsh, Shannon L
- Dewey number
- 363.92
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HQ755.5.U6
- Literary form
- non fiction
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history
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- Eugenics
- Eugenics
- Physical fitness
- Physical fitness
- Equality
- Equality
- Whites
- Whites
- United States
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- Eugenics and physical culture performance in the progressive era : watch whiteness workout, Shannon L. Walsh
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 202 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9783030587642
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- Other physical details
- illustrations.
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- (OCoLC)1222863379
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- Eugenics and physical culture performance in the progressive era : watch whiteness workout, Shannon L. Walsh
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
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- cr
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- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- txt
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- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 202 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9783030587642
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1222863379
Subject
- Eugenics -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Eugenics -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Physical fitness -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Physical fitness -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918
- Whites -- United States -- Attitudes | History -- 19th century
- Whites -- United States -- Attitudes | History -- 20th century
- Equality -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Equality -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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