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Introduction: Contextualizing Women in Action Sport Cultures

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Women in Action Sport Cultures

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In this chapter the Editors contextualize the book within 20 years of research on women in action sport cultures. As well as detailing the structure of the book, they explain how the 17 chapters build upon and extend existing feminist research on the gender relations in sport and movement culture by offering empirically informed insights into the multiple forms of power operating on and through women’s bodies in the various physical and mediated spaces of action sporting cultures. With an emphasis on the relationships between culture, bodies, subjectivities and power, they present the chapters in this book as highlighting important new directions for research and activism.

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Thorpe, H., Olive, R. (2016). Introduction: Contextualizing Women in Action Sport Cultures. In: Thorpe, H., Olive, R. (eds) Women in Action Sport Cultures. Global Culture and Sport Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-45797-4_1

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