Feminism and finding meaning in group fitness

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  • dc.contributor.author English, Colleen
  • dc.date.accessioned 2024-10-17T08:57:12Z
  • dc.date.available 2024-10-17T08:57:12Z
  • dc.date.issued 2020
  • dc.date.modified 2020-10-31T12:04:05Z
  • dc.description.abstract Group fitness typically receives criticism from feminist scholars as a type of physical activity that reinforces negative cultural ideas about femininity and women’s bodies. While these criticisms are valid, they provide little framework for how participants may find meaning within the practice of group fitness. In this philosophic analysis, I outline the problems associated with group fitness, particularly those highlighted by feminist critics and provide ways that women who participate in group fitness can find meaning, especially by upending patriarchal and sexist notions about women’s bodies and femininity. To do this, I use the practice of Zumba fitness, a class choreographed to Latin-style dance music, as a way to illustrate the potential for meaning. My analysis draws from philosophic, sociological, and historical literature about fitness, group fitness, and femininity.
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  • dc.identifier http://www.raco.cat/index.php/FairPlay/article/view/367587
  • dc.identifier 2014-9255
  • dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/62731
  • dc.publisher Universitat Pompeu Fabra
  • dc.relation.haspart FairPlay, Revista de Filosofia, Ética y Derecho del Deporte, 2020, Núm. 16 (2020), p. 1-17
  • dc.relation.haspart FairPlay, Revista de Filosofia, Ética y Derecho del Deporte, 2020, Núm. 16 (2020), p. 1-17
  • dc.relation.haspart http://www.raco.cat/index.php/FairPlay/article/view/367587/461444
  • dc.rights.uri Drets d'autor 2020 FairPlay, Revista de Filosofia, Ética y Derecho del Deporte
  • dc.rights.uri info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
  • dc.source.uri RACO (Revistes Catalanes amb Accés Obert)
  • dc.title Feminism and finding meaning in group fitness
  • dc.title Feminism and finding meaning in group fitness
  • dc.title Feminism and finding meaning in group fitness
  • dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
  • dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

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