Transforming Sport and Physical Cultures through Feminist Knowledges by Fullagar, Simone; Rich, Emma; Pavlidis, Adele;

Short description:

within and across sport and physical cultures. Authors explore the power relations implicated in the gendered formation of physical cultures (across leisure, sport, the arts, tourism, well-being and various embodied practices) from a range of disciplinary perspectives and theory-method approaches.

Long description:

Transforming Sport and Physical Cultures through Feminist Knowledges contributes new perspectives on the entanglement of digital and physical cultures, more-than-human relations, post and decolonial ways of knowing, and how onto-epistemologies of sport come to matter. These perspectives are explored through a diverse array of topics, including, the embodiment of netball through Feminist Physical Cultural Studies; pregnant embodiment and implications of the postgenomic turn; posthumanist perspectives on women’s negotiation of affective body work and an autoethnographic account of how masculinity materialises through football; the mediation of gendered subjectivity through the digital-physical cultures of cycling; as well as how decolonial and postcolonial approaches identify the gendered and racialised relations of power in sport for development and football campaigns aimed at women’s empowerment. The thread that connects these chapters is the ‘doing’ of feminism as a generative knowledge practice that can transform ways of imagining, knowing, and affecting more equitable futures.

This feminist collection contributes to the movement of ideas and transformation of knowledge within and across sport and physical cultures. Authors explore the power relations implicated in the gendered formation of physical cultures (across leisure, sport, the arts, tourism, well-being, and various embodied practices) from a range of disciplinary perspectives and theory-method approaches.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Leisure Sciences.

Table of Contents:

1. Feminist Knowledges as Interventions in Physical Cultures

2. Feminism and the Physical Cultural Studies Assemblage: Revisiting Debates and Imagining New Directions

3. Exploring Prenatal Physical Activity at the "Postgenomic Turn": A Transdisciplinary Journey

4. Gender Relations and Sport for Development in Colombia: A Decolonial Feminist Analysis

5. Creating Distance from Body Issues: Exploring New Materialist Feminist Possibilities for Renegotiating Gendered Embodiment

6. Becoming Footballer: An Authoethnographic Inquiry

7. Cycling Assemblages, Self-Tracking Digital Technologies and Negotiating Gendered Subjectivities of Road Cyclists On-the-Move

8. SheBelieves, but does she? Complicating white women’s understandings of the postfeminist-neoliberal empowerment discourse