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- W1006720382 abstract "Body Language: Sisters in Shape, Black Women's Fitness, and Feminist Identity Politics. By Kimberly J. Lau. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2011. Pp. xi + 187, acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, index. $25.95 paper, $79.50 cloth.)Kimberly J. Lau's Body Language: Sisters in Shape, Black Women's Fitness, and Feminist Identity Politics (2011) concerns the Sisters in Shape health and exercise group)-a group comprised of black women in Philadelphia who come together in order to lose weight and improve their overall health. Sisters in Shape arose out of widespread, positive reaction to a 1998 Philadelphia Daily News article that told of Sisters in Shape's founder, Melanie Marchand, and one of her clients who had gone from a size 16 to a size 8 in the course of the previous year. Today, Sisters in Shape remains a highly successful fitness program with hundreds of members and its own gym. In Body Language, Lau introduces her readers to several of the women while arguing that the group's corporeal focus represent[s] a mode of cultural activism and open[s] up new ways of imagining the strong black woman (10). Firmly situated within the ongoing feminist discussions of identity politics, Lau's book calls for both theoretical and cultural activism.Lau bases her study on six months of immersed, ethnographic fieldwork in Philadelphia when the author participated in the daily life of the Sisters in Shape. Lau also refers to several sets of weekend- and summer-long fieldwork visits after the author left Philadelphia. Outside of a few key members, most of the women addressed in Body Language are referred to by pseudonyms. Though Lau does not divulge her position within the group until the final chapter (outside of a short footnote in chapter 1 ), she considers herself to be both an insider to the Sisters in Shape group-she is a long-term colleague of founder, Melanie Marchand-and an outsider to the group, as she is not a black woman. Either way, it is clear that Lau likes the women of Sisters in Shape. She has no problems expressing her admiration for certain members at several points throughout the book. Take, for example, this early description of Cassandra, an exercise fanatic in her mid-40s: Smart, fit, and beautiful, Cassandra is energetic beyond compare, generous with her time and spirit, encouraging, dynamic, and funny (51). Most of the women of Sisters in Shape, as presented in Lau's book, are similarly courageous and admirable.While much work has been done in recent decades on popular cultures' topdown effects on women's body images, Lau's book offers a rare insight into body image in the context of ethnographic cultural inputs. As Lau shows, the task of getting healthy presents difficulties unique to the black women of Sisters in Shape. …" @default.
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