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Punching Back: Gender, Religion and Belonging in Women-Only Kickboxing: 5 (New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations) - Tapa blanda

Rana, Jasmijn

 
9781836955771: Punching Back: Gender, Religion and Belonging in Women-Only Kickboxing: 5 (New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations)

Sinopsis

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.

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Jasmijn Rana is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University.

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