RT Book
T1 Punching back: gender, religion and belonging in women-only kickboxing
T2 New anthropologies of Europe
JF New anthropologies of Europe
A1 Rana, Jasmijn
LA English
PP New York
PB Oxford
YR 2023
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1815428139
AB "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"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN GV1114.65
SN 978-1-80073-689-4
K1 Kickboxing : Netherlands
K1 Sports : Religious aspects : Islam
K1 Muslim Women : Conduct of life
K1 Self-realization in women : Moral and ethical aspects
K1 Women martial artists : Netherlands
K1 Sports for women : Social aspects : Netherlands
K1 Sports and state : Netherlands