Punching Back

Gender, Religion and Belonging in Women-Only Kickboxing

von Jasmijn Rana

180 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie und Anthropologie Soziologie Sport und Freizeit
• ISBN: 9781800736894
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 11.11.2022
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books