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Sport and the Female Disabled Body (Hardcover)
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Sport and the Female Disabled Body (Hardcover)
Series: Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
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This path-breaking book analyses the experiences of young sporting
women with physical impairments. Taking phenomenology as a point of
departure, Elisabet Apelmo explores how the young women handle
living with a body which, on the one hand, is viewed as deviant -
the disabled body - and on the other hand is viewed as accomplished
- the sporting body. A polarization is apparent between the weak,
which is manifested through the expression of belonging as "we",
and the strong individual. The subject position as strong, positive
and capable - as a reaction towards the weak, the negative - is one
of the few positions that are available to them. Furthermore, the
book demonstrates the strategies of resistance the young women
develop against the marginalisation, stereotyping and othering they
experience in their everyday lives. Finally, the author discusses
the paradox of gender. Disabled bodies are often seen as
non-gendered, however, these young women's experiences are
structured by both the gender regimes within sports and the larger
gender order of the society.
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