Punching Back: Gender, Religion and Belonging in Women-Only Kickboxing (New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations #5)
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2023
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781800736900
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781800736894
- Publisher:
- Berghahn Books, Incorporated
- Date of Addition:
- 11/11/22
- Copyrighted By:
- Jasmijn Rana
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Sports, Social Studies, Sociology
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.