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• "Successful and feminine athlete" and "natural-born fighter" : a discursive exploration of female judoka's identities in Greece and Finland 

  Kavoura, Anna (University of Jyväskylä, 2018)

  Despite feminist concerns about the asymmetrical distribution of power in martial arts and combat sports (MACS), sport psychology research has overlooked issues of inequality and socio-cultural difference, as well as ...

• Psychological Research on Martial Artists 

  Kavoura, Anna; Ryba, Tatiana V.; Kokkonen, Marja (Malmö University, Department of Sport Sciences, 2012)

  In this article, we problematize sport psychology research on martial artists and offer some suggestions for advancing our knowledge in this area of research and practice. First, we review the previous research in the ...

• “Some Women Are Born Fighters” : Discursive Constructions of a Fighter’s Identity by Female Finnish Judo Athletes 

  Kavoura, Anna; Kokkonen, Marja; Chroni, Stilitiani; Ryba, Tatiana V. (Springer New York LLC, 2018)

  Martial arts and combat sports have been traditionally associated with masculinity, and a range of contradictory meanings have been attached to women’s engagement and experiences. The present study draws on cultural praxis ...

• Identity tensions in dual career : the discursive construction of future selves by female Finnish judo athletes 

  Kavoura, Anna; Ryba, Tatiana V. (Routledge, 2020)

  To date, few studies have explored how changes in the practices, policies, and politics of sport and education may be implicated in how young athletes think about and plan for the future. Drawing on cultural praxis and ...

• Negotiating female judoka identities in Greece : A Foucauldian discourse analysis 

  Kavoura, Anna; Ryba, Tatiana V.; Chroni, Stiliani (Elsevier BV; European Federation of Sport Psychology, 2015)

  Objectives: The objectives of this paper are to trace the discourses through which female Greek judokas articulate their sporting experiences and to explore how they construct their identities through the negotiation of ...