Punching back : gender, religion and belonging in women-only kickboxing


Jasmijn Rana
Bok Engelsk 2023
Omfang
ix, 169 sider
Utgave
First edition
Opplysninger
Introduction -- A Place for Us: Neighbourhood and Nation in a Kickboxing Gym -- Punching, Kicking and Belonging through Learning Together -- Crafting Gendered Subjectivities in Kickboxing -- To Fight or Not to Fight: Religious Sensibilities in Sports -- Fighting Your Way In: Competitive Kickboxing against the Odds -- Conclusion. - "In the Netherlands, girls and young women are increasingly active in women-only kickboxing. The general assumption, in the Netherlands and in western Europe more broadly, is that women's sport is a form of secular, feminist empowerment. Muslim women's participation would then exemplify the incongruence of Islam with the modern, secular nation-state. Punching Back provides a detailed ethnographic study that contests this view by showing that young Muslim women who kickbox establish agentive selves by playing with gender norms, challenging expectations, and living out their religious subjectivities"--
Emner
Geografisk emneord
Nederland : (NO-TrBIB)HUME02598
Dewey
ISBN
9781800736894

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