Punching Back - Gender, Religion and Belonging in Women-Only Kickboxing (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Berghahn Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations
Release date:	November 2022
Authors:	Jasmijn Rana
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	180
ISBN-13:	978-1-80073-689-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Leisure Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
LSN:	1-80073-689-4
Barcode:	9781800736894

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