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

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A group of Black women in swimsuits and caps gather in a group in a pool.

The Intimacy of Exercise: Sensuality and Sexuality in Black Women’s Fitness History

How did the sensuality, sexuality, and homosociality of exercise create intimate possibilities for Black women in postwar America?

by Ava Purkiss via Nursing Clio on July 3, 2024

Native American and Black girls tossing around a medicine ball in a circle.

Right Living, Right Acting, and Right Thinking

How Black women used exercise to achieve civic goals in the late nineteenth century.

by Ava Purkiss via Lapham’s Quarterly on April 17, 2023

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