Nurturing the Female Body
Notions of Wellbeing in Womb Yoga
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4564504 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C Plancke (0000-0001-8639-0668, Ghent University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 732-744 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0145-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-5882 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01459740.2021.1961245 |
| PMID | 34372736 |
| OpenAlex | W3191713839 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 32 |
Alternative therapies which aim to enhance women's wellbeing have been accused of contributing to healthist and postfeminist agendas which rest upon a neoliberal logic. I critically engage with this issue here through an ethnographic study of womb yoga, a women's alternative therapy developed in the UK. I argue that while being commercial and emphasizing personal responsibility, womb yoga largely works against the current neoliberal optimization ideal. Womb yoga practitioners dismiss goal-oriented self-management and discipline, and avoid a simple reproduction of gender stereotypes by deflecting care away from other-directedness and opening the interpretation of femininity to the imaginative and experiential realms
Aesthetics · Ethnography · Experiential learning · Femininity · Ideal (ethics · Interpretation (philosophy · Pedagogy · Political science · Psychotherapist · Reproduction · Sociology · Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Gender Studies · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Philosophy · Psychology · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
Yoga Body
Beauty and Misogyny
New Blood
Stretching for Health and Well-Being
Self-Transformations
New Femininities
Basically, it’s sorcery for your vagina’
The ‘gender puzzle’ of alternative medicine and holistic spirituality
Self, Health, and Gender
Tuning into One’s Self
The Neoliberal Yogi and the Politics of Yoga
Healthism and the Medicalization of Everyday Life
The naturalistic turn in feminist theory
How 'alternative' is CAM? Rethinking conventional dichotomies between biomedicine and complementary/alternative medicine
Is the Healthy Body Gendered? Toward a Feminist Critique of the New Paradigm of Health
Liberation or Limitation? Understanding Iyengar Yoga as a Practice of the Self
Body, Mind and Spirit? Towards an Analysis of the Practice of Yoga
Women's Circles and the Rise of the New Feminine
Living in the Lap of the Goddess
Intimate immensity
The Politics of Life Itself
Spirituality, Gender, and Expressive Selfhood
Holistic sickening
The search for wellbeing in alternative and complementary health practices
The illness is part of the person
Undoing gender? The case of complementary and alternative medicine
Homoeopathy as a Feminist Form of Medicine
Researching Alternative and Complementary Therapies
Women's Bodies and Women's Lives in Western Herbal Medicine in the UK
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |