Women, sport and exercise in the Asia-Pacific region : domination, resistance, accommodation /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2019.
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| Series: | Routledge research in sport, culture and society ;
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Table of Contents:
- Rest and the West : present absence of non-Western research
- Women, sport and gender politics in Taiwan
- The politics of female football in North Korea : socialism, nationalism, and propaganda
- Resurgence of ethnic sports in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan : still hunting for women
- Her 'soldiering' on : female athletes in combat sports negotiating Thailand's gender politics
- The right way for me to do things for me : experiences of some Afghan women in entering and practicing karate
- Going it alone and strong : athletic Indo-Fijian women and everyday resistance
- Girls and sports in Samoa : culture, policy and practice in urban and rural communities
- Discursive construction of athletic nutrition in bodybuilding : from ideology to pharmacology of the female body in Kazakhstan
- Fiji's women rugby players : finding motivation in a 'hostile' environment
- Improving water, sanitation and hygiene facilities and women's participation in netball in Papua New Guinea
- Women's sports in Japan : enters a period of change
- Women and sports in the Solomon Islands
- Increasing mobility and visibility of women and adolescent girls through a sport-based gender intervention in low-income communities in Mumbai
- Reconstructing body and mind : narratives of health and wellbeing in self-help books from global East Asia
- Forging a new research imagination regarding Chinese girls' physical activity.