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Yoga for Women?
In Fritz Allhoff & Liz Stillwaggon Swan (eds.), Yoga ‐ Philosophy for Everyone. Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 84–93 (2011)
Abstract
This chapter contains sections titled: Yoga for Women? The Yoga Body as ‘Capital’ Yoga as a Beauty Practice Conclusion: Yoga for Everybody.
yoga for women, the problem of beautiful bodies yoga, in the West, being a practice for the body yoga, centered on the body, for achieving body ideals Hatha yoga, physical practice of yoga, as in the West Indra Devi, a Western woman, credited with spreading yoga yoga as we know it today, being a female practice in the US the yoga body as ‘Capital’, spiritual to a fitness practice yoga as a beauty practice yoga for everybody yoga and therapeutic benefits
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