Women, Sport and Exercise in the Asia-Pacific Region : Domination, Resistance, Accommodation.
Although socio-cultural issues in relation to women within the fields of sport and exercise have been extensively researched, this research has tended to concentrate on the Western world. Women, Sport and Exercise in the Asia-Pacific Region moves the conversation away entirely from Western contexts...
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2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: rest and the West
- present absence of non-Western research; PART I Nation-building and nationalism; 2 Women, sport and gender politics in Taiwan; 3 The politics of female football in North Korea: socialism, nationalism and propaganda; 4 Resurgence of ethnic sports in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan: still hunting for women; 5 Her 'soldiering' on: female athletes in combat sports negotiating Thailand's gender politics; PART II Sport, physical activity and empowerment
- 6 'The right way for me to do things for me': experiences of some Afghan women in entering and practising karate7 Going it alone and strong: athletic Indo-Fijian women and everyday resistance; 8 Girls and sports in Samoa: culture, policy and practice in urban and rural communities; 9 Discursive construction of athletic nutrition in bodybuilding: from ideology to pharmacology of the female body in Kazakhstan; PART III Challenges, change and development; 10 Fiji's women rugby players: finding motivation in a 'hostile' environment
- 11 Improving water, sanitation and hygiene facilities and women's participation in netball in Papua New Guinea12 Women's sports in Japan: enters a period of change; 13 Women and sports in Solomon Islands; 14 Increasing mobility and visibility of women and adolescent girls through a sport-based gender intervention in low-income communities in Mumbai; PART IV Transnationality and globalisation; 15 Reconstructing body and mind: narratives of health and wellbeing in self-help books from global East Asia; 16 Forging a new research imagination regarding Chinese girls' physical activity; Index