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Body classification in sport: A collaborative autoethnography by two female athletes
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posted on 2023-05-18, 21:41 authored by Jennifer McMahonJennifer McMahon, Franklin, R, McGannon, KRTwo female athletes’ embodied experiences in two different aquatic nature based sports are explored using collaborative autoethnography in conjunction with Foucault’s theory of the body as a site of discipline. The first section of this paper provides an overview of literature addressing body practices occurring in sport as a means of better contextualising how sporting sites have come to privilege female athletes’ bodies that are ‘fatless’, ‘fit’, ‘idealised’ and ‘feminine’ over those who did not meet such body standards. In the second part of the paper, collaborative autoethnography is used as a means of presenting and analysing two female athletes’ embodied experiences in aquatic nature based sport. The two female athletes’ stories reveal how their bodies were ‘classified’ according to the idealised female athletic body shape for their specific sport. The two female athletes’ stories also revealed that as a result of their bodies being classified in the sporting context, a fractured body-self relationship resulted.
History
Publication title
Psychology of Women Section ReviewVolume
18Pagination
48-58ISSN
1466-3724Department/School
Faculty of EducationPublisher
The British Psychological SocietyPlace of publication
United KingdomRights statement
Copyright 2016 The British Psychological SocietyRepository Status
- Restricted