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

ISBN-13: 9780367247577 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 244 str.

Aarti Ratna; Samaya F. Samie

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction: Sport, Race and Gender: The Politics of Ethnic ‘Other’ Girls and Women [Aarti Ratna and Sumaya Farooq Samie]  1. Mapping the Field: Research about Ethnic ‘Other’ Females, Sport and Physical Culture [Aarti Ratna and Sumaya Farooq Samie]  Part 1: Theoretical Interventions and Knowledge Production  2. De/Colonizing ‘Sporting Muslim Women’: Post-Colonial Feminist Reflections on the Dominant Portrayal of Sporting Muslim Women in Academic Research, Public Forums and Mediated Representations [Sumaya Farooq Samie]  3. Theoretical Considerations in the Examination of African American Girls and Women in Sport [Akilah R. Carter-Francique]  4. Re-confronting Whiteness: On-going Challenges in Sport and Leisure Research [Beccy Watson and Sheila Scraton]  Part 2: Experiences at the Intersections of Identity  5. ‘Using the Pen as a Weapon’: The Resistance of an Outsider Within [Aarti Ratna]  6. Confronting the ‘Whiteness’ of Women’s Cricket: Excavating Hidden Truths and Knowledge to Make Sense of Non-White Women’s Experiences of Cricket [Raffaele Nicholson]  7. Ladies-Only! Empowerment and Comfort in Gender-Segregated Kickboxing in the Netherlands [Jasmijn Rana]  Part 3: Everyday Struggles and Transformative Practice  8. Lorena "La Reina" Ochoa: Disindentifying Toward Brown Solidarity [Katherine Jamieson and Yeomi Choi]  9. Do Women Get the Offside Rule? Female Fans, Labelling and Stereotypes in Turkey [Itir Erhart]  10. Sports Coaching and the Inclusion of Black Women in the United Kingdom [Alexander J. Rankin-Wright and Leanne Norman]