Punching Back: Gender, Religion and Belonging in Women-Only Kickboxing Rana Jasmijn
Punching Back: Gender, Religion and Belonging in Women-Only Kickboxing Rana Jasmijn In the Netherlands, girls and young women are increasingly active in women-only kickboxing. Muslim women's…
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Punching Back: Gender, Religion and Belonging in Women-Only Kickboxing Rana Jasmijn
In the Netherlands, girls and young women are increasingly active in women-only kickboxing. Muslim women's participation would then exemplify the incongruence of Islam with the modern, secular nation-state. The general assumption, in the Netherlands and in western Europe more broadly, is that women's sport is a form of secular, feminist empowerment.
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
Women and Gender in Islam