Punching Back : : Gender, Religion and Belonging in Women-Only Kickboxing / / Jasmijn Rana.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Rana, Jasmijn,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations ; 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (180 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; CHAPTER 1 A PLACE FOR US Neighbourhood and Nation in a Kickboxing Gym --; CHAPTER 2 PUNCHING, KICKING AND BELONGING THROUGH LEARNING TOGETHER --; CHAPTER 3 CRAFTING GENDERED SUBJECTIVITIES IN KICKBOXING --; CHAPTER 4 TO FIGHT OR NOT TO FIGHT Religious Sensibilities in Sports --; CHAPTER 5 FIGHTING YOUR WAY IN Competitive Kickboxing against the Odds --; CONCLUSION --; REFERENCES --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781800736900; 9783110997668
• DOI: 10.1515/9781800736900
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jasmijn Rana.

In the Netherlands, girls and young women are increasingly active in women-only kickboxing. The general assumption, in the Netherlands and in western Europe more broadly, is that women’s sport is a form of secular, feminist empowerment. Muslim women’s participation would then exemplify the incongruence of Islam with the modern, secular nation-state. Punching Back provides a detailed ethnographic study that contests this view by showing that young Muslim women who kickbox establish agentive selves by playing with gender norms, challenging expectations, and living out their religious subjectivities.