Fit Citizens: A History of Black Women's Exercise from Post-Reconstruction to Postwar America

"Ava Purkiss examines how Black women demonstrated their literal and figurative 'fitness' for citizenship through exercise. Using public health records, beauty columns, physical education reports, cookbooks, newspapers, and magazines, she centers race and gender; challenges how historians have written about the relationship between physical fitness, civic fitness, and national belonging; and provides historical context for numerous public health studies concerned with the health of African American women and girls"-- Read More

"Ava Purkiss examines how Black women demonstrated their literal and figurative 'fitness' for citizenship through exercise. Using public health records, beauty columns, physical education reports, cookbooks, newspapers, and magazines, she centers race and gender; challenges how historians have written about the relationship between physical fitness, civic fitness, and national belonging; and provides historical context for numerous public health studies concerned with the health of African American women and girls"-- Read Less

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  	This is a digital edition of this title. Buy eBook Lifetime Access: $17.99 Title: Fit Citizens by Ava Purkiss Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press Print ISBN: 9781469670485, 1469670488 eText ISBN: 9781469670492 Edition: 2023 Format: EPUB eBook	$17.99 Buy eBook This is a digital eBook Nothing will be shipped to you Works with web browsers and the VitalSource app on all Windows, Mac, Chromebook, Kindle Fire, iOS, and Android devices Most eBooks are returnable within 14 days of purchase Questions? See our eBook FAQ