Nichols, Erin, Pavlidis, Adele and Nowak, Raphael Alexandre (2021) “It’s like lifting the power” : Powerlifting, digital gendered subjectivities, and the politics of multiplicity. Leisure Sciences. ISSN 0149-0400
Abstract
Powerlifting, a competitive strength-based sport, offers a rich and compelling site for investigating the digital mediation of gendered subjectivities. The substantive implications of feminist knowledge as interventions in physical cultures are well documented. This article seeks to extend the onto-epistemological precepts of a Feminist New Materialist framework to further a generative analysis of women’s physically active moving bodies. The digital lifting journeys of ten women and their physical-digital everyday experiences of becoming-strong comprise the sample with the intent of understanding something different about the micropolitics of self-world transformations entangled within moving-desiring practices. Hence, we argue in this article that the ephemerality of digital traces embedded within networked-based platforms such as Instagram have the potential to change the ‘Face’ of strength-based sport with significant implications for expanding the cultural imaginary of/for sportswomen more broadly.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Sociology (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 04 Aug 2021 09:10 |
Last Modified: | 01 Feb 2024 00:41 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
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Description: “It’s like Lifting the Power”: Powerlifting, Digital Gendered Subjectivities, and the Politics of Multiplicity