Sport and the Female Disabled Body

ISBN-13: 9781138494466 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 158 str.

Apelmo, Elisabet (Malmoe University, Sweden)

Opis

This path-breaking book analyses young sporting women with physical disabilities and explores their experiences of 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.

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Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Theoretical Framework and Methodological Considerations  3. ‘I Am Just Like Everyone Else’  4. Bodily Experiences  5. Technology, Gender and the Body  6. Sporting Bodies and Gender  7. Final Discussion

O autorze

Elisabet Apelmo is Lecturer in the Department of Social Work at Malmö University, Sweden. She is a visual artist with a PhD in Sociology.