Punching Back: Gender, Religion and Belonging in Women-Only Kickboxing

by Jasmijn Rana

In the Netherlands, girls and young women are increasingly active in women-only kickboxing. The general assumption, in the Netherlands and in western Europe more broadly, is that women's sport is a form of secular, feminist empowerment. Muslim women's participation would then exemplify the incongruence of Islam with the modern, secular nation-state. Punching Back provides a detailed ethnographic study that contests this view by showing that young...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800736894
• ISBN13: 9781800736894
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"