Invisible (women's) bodies

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.