Nation of Family and Friends? - Sport and the Leisure Cultures of British Asian Girls and Women

In A Nation of Family and Friends sociologist Aarti Ratna interrogates sport and leisure cultures as a site of common culture. Ratna portrays and analyses the vagaries of British Asian-ness and examines the intersections of class, caste, age, generation, gender, and sexuality, providing a rich and critical exploration of British Asian women's sport and leisure choices, pleasures, and lived realities.

List of contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Preface: Sibling Rivalries

Introduction: A Sporting Nation of Family and Friends?

1. The Making of the "South Asian Woman"

Interlude One: Engaging My "Erotic"

2. Walking with Friends and Family

Interlude Two: Homing Desires

3. Gendering the Racial Production of Sporting Films

Interlude Three: The Heartness of Darkness

4. The Politics of Sporting Conviviality

Conclusion: South Asian Women, Mothers, Workers, Lovers, Players, Fans, and Friends

Epilogue: An Antiracist Feminist Tool Kit

Acknowledgments

References

Index

About the author

AARTI RATNA teaches and writes about race, gender, and popular culture, focusing on the sport and leisure engagements of British Asian girls and women. They co-edited Gender, Race and Sport: The Politics of Ethnic “Other” Girls and Women and are an associate professor in the Department of Social Sciences at Northumbria University in Newcastle, UK.  

Product details

• Authors: Aarti Ratna
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2024
• EAN: 9781978834118
• ISBN: 978-1-978834-11-8
• No. of pages: 164
• Series: Critical Issues in Sport and S; Critical Issues in Sport and Society
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories