Punching Back

Jasmijn Rana

ISBN 10: 1800736894 / ISBN 13: 9781800736894

Published by Berghahn Books, GB, 2022

About this Item

In the Netherlands, girls and young women are increasingly active in women-only kickboxing. The general assumption, in the Netherlands and in western Europe more broadly, is that women's sport is a form of secular, feminist empowerment. Muslim women's participation would then exemplify the incongruence of Islam with the modern, secular nation-state. 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 subjectivities.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Punching Back
• Publisher: Berghahn Books, GB
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1800736894
• ISBN 13: 9781800736894
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 15.75W x 1.78H x 23.11D centimeters 15.75 centimeters width by 1.78 centimeters height by 23.11 centimeters depth

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Synopsis

In the Netherlands, girls and young women are increasingly active in women-only kickboxing. The general assumption, in the Netherlands and in western Europe more broadly, is that women’s sport is a form of secular, feminist empowerment. Muslim women’s participation would then exemplify the incongruence of Islam with the modern, secular nation-state. 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 subjectivities.

About the Author

Jasmijn Rana is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University.