Yoga, Sexual Violation and Discourse

Reconfigured Hegemonies and Feminist Voices

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ID5855091
AutoresShameem Black (0000-0002-2782-0012, Australian National University, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume35
Fascículo105
Páginas277-292
Data de publicação2020-07-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAustralian Feminist Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1321-7568 • E-ISSN: 1465-3303
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/08164649.2020.1775067
OpenAlexW3033520321
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas30

What can we learn from cultural practices that are simultaneously narrated as the cause and cure for sexual violation? In recent years, yoga has come to exemplify one such practice. The world of yoga has been roiled by accusations of violation, yet yoga has also gained prominence as a therapeutic tool and even as a policy \nrecommendation to reduce assault. I analyse such competing rhetoric from India and the United States to shed light on how patriarchal and capitalist discourses can gain new vitality in the name of contesting violations they enable. Such cultural logics frame yoga-themed narratives solicited and archived under the sign of the #MeToo hashtag. Cultivating yoga as a feminist practice requires us to examine more radical visions found before and beyond #MeToo, exemplified within memoir and fiction

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