Hall, Jenny ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5200-4308 (2022) Transforming Sport and Physical Cultures Through Feminist Knowledges. Book Review, J. Hall. Leisure Studies, United Kingdom.

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Abstract

Transforming Sport and Physical Cultures Through Feminist Knowledges draws on cutting edge research to inspire readers to think through how physical experiences and embodied movement in sport and leisure are gendered in the twenty-first century. This edited volume begins to consolidate the emergent field of Feminist Physical Cultural Studies (FPCS) and in doing so extends knowledge in the broader canon of physical cultural studies. It does so by applying feminist new materialist approaches within a social justice agenda to understand how gender politics and relations are produced and negotiated in physical culture. Feminist new materialism offers a rich approach for exploring posthuman or more-than-human relations, in what Pink (2009) refers to as an emplaced mind-body-environment where gender is conceived as spatial, diverse, vital and fluid. Feminist new materialist approaches aim to extend beyond essentialist fixed binaries (male/female) and biological determinism to understand how gender is embodied, exposing inequalities, as well as how it can be transformative. The book makes an important contribution to PCS by broadening our understanding of how power, identity and difference are gendered in leisure and physical activity and how feminist knowledges can lead to social change.

Item Type:	Other
Additional Information:	"This is an accepted version of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Leisure Studies on 2/02/2022 available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02614367.2022.2037152”
Status:	Published
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2022.2037152
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GV Recreation Leisure H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
School/Department:	York Business School
URI:	https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/6239

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