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Nome canónico
Goldberg, Michelle
Data de nascimento
1975
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Buffalo, New York, USA
Locais de residência
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Educação
University of California, Berkeley
Ocupações
Teacher (NYU Graduate school of Journalism)
Organizações
Salon.com (Senior Writer)
Huffington Post
Advisory Board - "Campaign to Defend the Constitution"

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Michelle Goldberg is a senior writer at Salon, where she has reported extensively on both sides of America’s ever-seething culture war. She is the author of Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism.

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May use this book in WMST 490 next year, as centerpiece for seminar topic.
 
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LizzK | 9 outras críticas | Dec 8, 2023 |
When the woman who would become Indra Devi was born in Russia in 1899, yoga was virtually unknown outside of India. By the time of her death, in 2002, it was being practiced everywhere, from Brooklyn to Berlin to Ulaanbaatar. In The Goddess Pose, New York Times best-selling author Michelle Goldberg traces the life of the incredible woman who brought yoga to the West-and in so doing paints a sweeping picture of the twentieth century.

Born into the minor aristocracy (as Eugenia Peterson), Devi grew up in the midst of one of the most turbulent times in human history. Forced to flee the Russian Revolution as a teenager, she joined a famous Berlin cabaret troupe, dove into the vibrant prewar spiritualist movement, and, at a time when it was nearly unthinkable for young European woman to travel alone, followed the charismatic Theosophical leader Jiddu Krishnamurti to India.

Once on the subcontinent, she performed in Indian silent cinema and hobnobbed with the leaders of the independence movement. But her greatest coup was convincing a recalcitrant master yogi to train her in the secrets of his art.

Devi would go on to share what she learned with people around the world, teaching in Shanghai during World War II, then in Hollywood, where her students included Gloria Swanson and Greta Garbo. She ran a yoga shool in Mexico during the height of the counterculture, served as spiritual addviser to the colonel who tried tooverthrow Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega, and, in her eigthies, moved to Buenos Aires at the invitation of a besotted rock star.

Everwhere she went, Indra Devi evangelized for yoga, ushering in a global craze that continues unabated. Written with vivid clarity, The Godess Pose brings her remarkable story-as an actress, yogi, and globetrotting adventures-to life.

Michelle Goldberg is a journalist and the author of the New York Times best seller Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, which was a finalist for the New York Public LIbrary's Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, and the Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World, winner of the J. Anthoniy Lukas Work-in-Progress Award and the Ernesta Drinker Ballard Book Prize. A senior contributiong writer at The Nation, she has also written pieces for the New Yorker, The New York Times, Newsweek, The New Republic, Glamour, and many other publications. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and children.

'The Goddess Pose, Michelle Goldberg's-yes, audacious-new biograpy of Indra Devi, is not just an investigation of one of the twentieth century's most fascinating and fearless iconoclasts, but a cellebration of female freedom and evrything it can bring: an appetite for adventure, fearlessness in the face of challenge, and, most important, discovery and assertion of self.'-Anna Holmes, founding editor, Jezebel

'In The Goddess Pose, Michelle Godldberg brings Indra devi, a complicated and incredible woman, to life in Technicolor brilliance, as she bops, Zelig-like, through some of the most importent events of last century-from the Russian Revolution to the rise of Nazism, to the JFK assassination. I'll never think of yoga the same way again-and neither will you. Even if you've never uttered the word 'namaste,' you won't be able to put this book down.'-Susannah Cahalan, New York Times best-selling author of Brain on Fire

'Whether yu're a student of yoga, a history buff, an armchair adventurer, or just a reader in search of an unputdownable story that happens to be true, you'll love this fascinating biograhy of one of the twentieth century's boldest, most inflluential women. Michelle Goldberg gets us as close to unveiling the mysterious Indra Devi as anyone is likely to get. Brava!'-Katha Pollit, author of Learning to Drive: and Other Life Stories

'Michelle Goldberg's masterful engagement with her astonishing subject-and with the diverse political, spiritual, and physical worlds she inhabited-is evident on every page of this terific book. The Goddess Pose is a surprising adventure from beginning to end.'-Rebecca Traister, author of Big Girls Don't Cry

Contents

Introduction
Part I Eugenia
Part II Jane
Part III Indra Devi
Part IV Mataji
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
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AikiBib | 5 outras críticas | May 29, 2022 |
If you're a pro-choice feminist or just pro-reporoductive rights, this book will anger you beyond belief before you get to page 20. I'm trying to decide if I should keep reading. (Ed. note. I skimmed through the rest of the book and became even more outraged yet inspired. I think those women who are pro-life will also find the book upsetting because of the way patriarchal based governments and religions manipulate the ideas of women's fertility for their own ambitions.)
 
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RakishaBPL | 9 outras críticas | Sep 24, 2021 |
Indra Devi was the person responsible for making yoga popular. Born in 1899, she was a feminist from the get go. Well researched, the story was interesting.
 
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brangwinn | 5 outras críticas | May 19, 2019 |

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