Transforming Sport and Physical Cultures through Feminist Knowledges

Transforming Sport and Physical Cultures through Feminist Knowledges offers new perspectives on the entanglement of digital and physical cultures, more-than-human relations, post and decolonial ways of knowing, and onto-epistemologies of sport. It explores topics such as the embodiment of netball, pregnant embodiment, posthumanist perspectives, the mediation of gendered subjectivity, and decolonial and postcolonial approaches to identify the gendered and racialized relations of power in sport. The book contributes to the movement of ideas and transformation of knowledge within and across sport and physical cultures.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 148 pages
Publication date: 25 September 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Transforming Sport and Physical Cultures through Feminist Knowledges offers fresh insights into the intricate interplay between digital and physical cultures, more-than-human relations, post and decolonial ways of knowing, and the significance of onto-epistemologies of sport. These perspectives are explored through a diverse range of topics, including the embodiment of netball through Feminist Physical Cultural Studies, the pregnant embodiment and implications of the postgenomic turn, posthumanist perspectives on women's negotiation of affective body work, an autoethnographic account of how masculinity materialises through football, the mediation of gendered subjectivity through the digital-physical cultures of cycling, and 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 common thread that unites these chapters is the 'doing of feminism as a generative knowledge practice that has the potential to transform our ways of imagining, knowing, and affecting more equitable futures.

This feminist collection makes valuable contributions to the movement of ideas and the transformation of knowledge within and across sport and physical cultures. The authors examine the power relations inherent in the gendered formation of physical cultures (spanning leisure, sport, the arts, tourism, well-being, and various embodied practices) from various disciplinary perspectives and theory-method approaches.

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

Weight: 453g
Dimension: 246 x 174 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367761721