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  • New sporting femininities in China: The embodied politics of roller derby

    Author(s)
    Pavlidis, Adele
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Pavlidis, Adele
    Year published
    2018
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    Abstract
    In this chapter Pavlidis argues that roller derby acts as a floating signifier for feminism. As a contact sport played on roller skates, roller derby is challenging feminine norms in sport and providing diverse women with opportunities to experience their bodies in new and exciting ways. In China roller derby has been introduced by ex-patriot and development workers as a form of feminist intervention. In this particular national context roller derby signifies an embodied protest and challenge, and in doing has become a postfeminist emblem of power, strength and courage. Drawing on interviews with roller derby skaters in China ...
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    In this chapter Pavlidis argues that roller derby acts as a floating signifier for feminism. As a contact sport played on roller skates, roller derby is challenging feminine norms in sport and providing diverse women with opportunities to experience their bodies in new and exciting ways. In China roller derby has been introduced by ex-patriot and development workers as a form of feminist intervention. In this particular national context roller derby signifies an embodied protest and challenge, and in doing has become a postfeminist emblem of power, strength and courage. Drawing on interviews with roller derby skaters in China and ethnographic data, Pavlidis demonstrates the possibilities and contradictions roller derby presents for culturally and ethnically diverse women.
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    Book Title
    New Sporting Femininities: Embodied Politics in Postfeminist Times
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72481-2_8
    Grant identifier(s)
    DE180100377
    Subject
    Other human society not elsewhere classified
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/381128
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