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Invisible (women's) bodies

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posted on 2017-02-10, 00:00 authored by Kim ToffolettiKim Toffoletti, C Palmer
This chapter approaches the issue of invisible bodies in physical cultural studies debates by considering Muslim women’s experiences of sport. Central to our discussion is an interrogation of the dynamics of power that frame Muslim women through a deficit lens, and advocates for more research that is attentive to the complex tensions, pleasures and contradictions that shape Muslim women’s encounters with various domains of physical culture. We suggest that a PCS approach, by extending the parameters of how we conceive active embodiment, can bring Muslim women into view (beyond the dominant, yet limited, framing of them in terms of sport participation) to encompass the varied ways they experience their own bodies in motion and other active bodies they encounter across a range of sites.

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Title of book

Routledge handbook of physical cultural studies

Series

Routledge International Handbooks

Chapter number

29

Pagination

337 - 347

Publisher

Routledge

Place of publication

Abingdon, Eng.

ISBN-13

9781317596004

ISBN-10

1317596005

Language

eng

Publication classification

B1 Book chapter

Copyright notice

2017, Routledge

Extent

58

Editor/Contributor(s)

M Silk, D Andrews, H Thorpe

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