Women, Sport and Exercise in the Asia-Pacific Region: Domination, Resistance, Accommodation

ISBN-13: 9780367896249 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 274 str.

Gyozo Molnar; Sara N. Amin; Yoko Kanemasu

Opis

Focusing on women, sport and exercise in the Asia-Pacific region, this book presents a diverse range of empirical case studies from areas such as India, Fiji, North Korea and Japan, shedding new light on the nexus of sport, exercise, gender, sexuality and power.

 

Spis treści

1 Introduction: Rest and the West – present absence of non-Western research

Gyozo Molnar, Sara N. Amin and Yoko Kanemasu

Part I Nation-building and Nationalism

2 Women, Sport and Gender Politics in Taiwan

Ying Chiang and Alan Bairner

3 The politics of female football in North Korea: socialism, nationalism, and propaganda

Jung Woo Lee

4 Resurgence of ethnic sports in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan: Still hunting for women

Elena Kim and Elena Molchanova

5 Her ‘Soldiering’ On: Female Athletes in Combat Sports Negotiating Thailand’s Gender Politics

Sukritaya Jukping

Part II Sport, Physical Activity and Empowerment

6 "The right way for me to do things for me": Experiences of some Afghan women in entering and practicing karate

Sara N. Amin

7 Going It Alone and Strong: Athletic Indo-Fijian Women and Everyday Resistance Yoko Kanemasu

8 Girls and Sports in Samoa: Culture, Policy and Practice in Urban and Rural Communities

Suzie Schuster and Penelope Schoeffel

9 Discursive Construction of Athletic Nutrition in Bodybuilding: from Ideology to Pharmacology of the Female body in Kazakhstan

Zhanar Sekerbayeva

Part III Challenges, Change and Development

10 Fiji's Women Rugby Players: Finding Motivation in a ‘Hostile’ Environment
Yoko Kanemasu, James Johnson and Gyozo Molnar

11 Improving water, sanitation and hygiene facilities and women’s participation in netball in Papua New Guinea

Lua Rikis, Leentje Be’Soer, Joanna Lamb, Emily Ryan and Stephanie Franet

12 Women’s Sports in Japan: Enters a Period of Change

Osamu Takamine

13 Women and sports in the Solomon Islands

Jeremy Dorovolomo, Billy Fito’o, Jack Maebuta, Patrick Miniti and Gordon Nanau

14 Increasing mobility and visibility of women and adolescent girls through a sport- based gender intervention in low-income communities in Mumbai

Madhumita Das, Shweta Bankar and Ravi Verma

Part IV Transnationality and Globalisation

15 Reconstructing body and mind: Narratives of health and wellbeing in self-help books from global East Asia

Daniel Nehring

16 Forging a new research imagination regarding Chinese girls’ physical activity

Bonnie Pang