Owton, Helen
(2015).
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Abstract
This chapter draws upon data generated by an autoethnographic research project on sporting embodiment within the physical cultures of boxing. The researcher participated in women's boxing with an aim to become a fully-fledged insider member of a boxing club, keeping detailed and critical field notes. Commensurate with a feminist phenomenological approach, key findings are portrayed through the use of vignettes and poems; grounded in the female lived-body, with a focus on the gendered dimensions of embodiment, as well as the intense and heightened sensorial forms of embodiment encountered in the physical and masculinist cultures of boxing. Findings of this research aim to explore the intense and heightened sensorial aspects and generate potent insights into the female boxing carnal experiences as lived and felt in the flesh.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2015 Selection, introduction and editorial content Alex Channon and Christopher R. Matthews, individual chapters, respective authors |
| ISBN: | 1-137-43935-1, 978-1-137-43935-2 |
| Keywords: | women's boxing; autoethnography; identity; self; sports; vignettes; poetry |
| Academic Unit/School: | Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | Childhood Studies |
| Item ID: | 42684 |
| Depositing User: | Helen Owton |
| Date Deposited: | 08 May 2015 09:46 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Oct 2016 08:36 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/42684 |
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