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Subject(s)

• Women athletes with disabilities—Psychology [Browse]
• Body image in women [Browse]

Series

Interdisciplinary disability studies [More in this series]

Summary note

"Analyses the experiences of young sporting women with physical impairments. Taking phenomenology as a point of departure, Elisabet Apelmo explores how the young women handle living with a body which, on the one hand, is viewed as deviant--the disabled body--and, on the other, is viewed as accomplished--the sporting body. A polarization is apparent between the weak, which is manifested through the expression of belonging as 'we', and the strong individual."--Page 4 of cover.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-152) and index.

Contents

• Theoretical framework and methodological considerations
• 'I am just like everyone else'
• Bodily experiences
• Technology, gender and the body
• Sporting bodies and gender
• Final discussion.

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ISBN

• 9781472455147 ((hbk.))
• 1472455142 ((hbk.))

LCCN

2016017950

OCLC

938995072

Other standard number

• 99969865265

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