Women, sport and exercise in the Asia-Pacific region : domination, resistance, accommodation /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Molnar, Gyozo (Sport studies teacher) (Author), Amin, Sara N. (Author), Kanemasu, Yoko (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
Series:Routledge research in sport, culture and society ; 104.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.