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Race, Gender and Sport : The Politics of Ethnic 'Other' Girls and Women.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2017Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (245 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317266884
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 306.483
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Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: sport, race and gender - the politics of ethnic 'Other' girls and women -- 1 Mapping the field: research about ethnic 'Other' females, sport and physical culture -- Part I Theoretical interventions and knowledge production -- 2 De/colonising 'sporting Muslim women': post-colonial feminist reflections on the dominant portrayal of sporting Muslim women in academic research, public forums and mediated representations -- 3 Theoretical considerations in the examination of African American girls and women in sport -- 4 Re-confronting whiteness: ongoing challenges in sport and leisure research -- Part II Experiences at the intersections of identity -- 5 'Using the pen as a weapon': the resistance of an outsider within -- 6 Confronting the 'whiteness' of women's cricket: excavating hidden truths and knowledge to make sense of non-white women's experiences in cricket -- 7 Ladies-only! Empowerment and comfort in gender-segregated kickboxing in the Netherlands -- Part III Everyday struggles and transformative practice -- 8 Lorena 'La Reina' Ochoa: disidentifying toward brown solidarity -- 9 Do women get the offside rule? Female fans, labelling and stereotypes in Turkey -- 10 Sport coaching and the inclusion of Black women in the United Kingdom -- Index.
Summary: There is a continuing need for critical scholarship about ethnic 'Other' girls and women in sport and physical culture, in order to represent their complex, multifarious and dynamic lived realities. This international collection of critical essays provides compelling insight into the lived realities of ethnic 'Other' females in sport.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: sport, race and gender - the politics of ethnic 'Other' girls and women -- 1 Mapping the field: research about ethnic 'Other' females, sport and physical culture -- Part I Theoretical interventions and knowledge production -- 2 De/colonising 'sporting Muslim women': post-colonial feminist reflections on the dominant portrayal of sporting Muslim women in academic research, public forums and mediated representations -- 3 Theoretical considerations in the examination of African American girls and women in sport -- 4 Re-confronting whiteness: ongoing challenges in sport and leisure research -- Part II Experiences at the intersections of identity -- 5 'Using the pen as a weapon': the resistance of an outsider within -- 6 Confronting the 'whiteness' of women's cricket: excavating hidden truths and knowledge to make sense of non-white women's experiences in cricket -- 7 Ladies-only! Empowerment and comfort in gender-segregated kickboxing in the Netherlands -- Part III Everyday struggles and transformative practice -- 8 Lorena 'La Reina' Ochoa: disidentifying toward brown solidarity -- 9 Do women get the offside rule? Female fans, labelling and stereotypes in Turkey -- 10 Sport coaching and the inclusion of Black women in the United Kingdom -- Index.

There is a continuing need for critical scholarship about ethnic 'Other' girls and women in sport and physical culture, in order to represent their complex, multifarious and dynamic lived realities. This international collection of critical essays provides compelling insight into the lived realities of ethnic 'Other' females in sport.

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