My Life at the Gym: Feminist Perspectives on Community through the Body

Personal accounts celebrating the place of exercise in women's lives—and as the site of women's community.

"Very often, my workouts are the best part of my day," notes feminist writer Jo Malin. My Life at the Gym celebrates women's experiences of exercise and the found spaces for this activity as places of community with other women. Neither elite athletes nor dancers, the contributors to this volume are well aware of the negative cultural messages about women's bodies that may influence bod...