This path-breaking book analyses the experiences of young sporting women with physical impairments. Taking phenomenology as a point of departure, Elisabet Apelmo explores how the young women handle living with a body which, on the one hand, is viewed as deviant the disabled body and on the other hand is viewed as accomplished the sporting body. A polarization is apparent between the weak, which is manifested through the expression of belonging as "we," and the strong individual. The subject position as strong, positive and capable as a reaction towards the weak, the negative is one of the...