Punching Back

Punching BackIn 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 womens sport is a form of secular, feminist empowerment. Muslim womens 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 Muslim

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The approaches represented here stress the importance of the administrators' engagement in the daily life of the school