Description
| Product ID: | 9781800736894 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations |
| Title: | Punching Back |
| Subtitle: | Gender, Religion and Belonging in Women-Only Kickboxing |
| Authors: | Author: Jasmijn Rana |
| Page Count: | 180 |
| Subjects: | Gender studies: women and girls, Gender studies: women, Sociology: sport and leisure, Social and cultural anthropology, Sociology: sport & leisure, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography |
| Description: | 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Berghahn Books |
| Publisher Name: | Berghahn Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-11-11 |
