Black Women's Yoga History

Black Women's Yoga HistoryExamines how Black women elders have managed stress, emphasizing how self care practices have been present since at least the mid nineteenth century, with roots in African traditions. How have Black women elders managed stress? In Black Women's Yoga History, Stephanie Y. Evans uses primary sources to answer that question and to show how meditation and yoga from eras of enslavement, segregation, and migration to the Civil Rights, Black Power, and New

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Disability and the Victorians investigates the attitudes of Victorians towards people with impairments

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