Sport and the Female Disabled Body - Interdisciplinary Disability Studies

Zusatztext 'This book applies phenomenology to a much understudied area-that of women with disabilities in sport. The book interrogates the role that gender plays across political! social and sporting domains while also deepening our understanding of the physicality of the human body and insights into the feminist mind.' - Anjali J. Forber-Pratt! Vanderbilt University! U.S.Aand Two-time U.S. Paralympian'What a gem! The book offers an evocative and theoretically insightful account of sporting women and disability. The content covered is expansive! topical! and clear. Riveting to read! brimming with rich qualitative data and ideas! it fills an important void in the field.' - Brett Smith! University of Birmingham! UK Informationen zum Autor Elisabet Apelmo is Lecturer in the Department of Social Work at Malmö University, Sweden. She is a visual artist with a PhD in Sociology. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Elisabet Apelmo, Elisabet (Malmo University Apelmo, Elisabet (Malmoe University Apelmo, Apelmo Elisabet, ELISABET APELMO
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.10.2016
• EAN: 9781472455147
• ISBN: 978-1-4724-5514-7
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 240 mm x 12 mm
• Series: Interdisciplinary Disability Studies; Interdisciplinary Disability S; Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Holidays (non-religious), Sociology: sport & leisure, Sociology: sport and leisure, Disability: social aspects, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls