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dc.contributor.authorKavoura, Anna
dc.contributor.authorKokkonen, Marja
dc.contributor.authorChroni, Stilitiani
dc.contributor.authorRyba, Tatiana V.
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-17T11:41:29Z
dc.date.available2018-11-18T22:35:41Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.citationKavoura, A., Kokkonen, M., Chroni, S., & Ryba, T. V. (2018). “Some Women Are Born Fighters” : Discursive Constructions of a Fighter’s Identity by Female Finnish Judo Athletes. <i>Sex Roles</i>, <i>79</i>(3-4), 239-252. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-017-0869-1" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-017-0869-1</a>
dc.identifier.otherCONVID_27357382
dc.identifier.otherTUTKAID_75723
dc.identifier.urihttps://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/58956
dc.description.abstractMartial 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 and feminist poststructuralist frameworks to explore how female martial artists are subjectified to dominant cultural discourses surrounding fighting and competition. Interviews with nine female judoka (judo athletes) were gathered in Finland and analyzed using Foucauldian Discourse Analysis (FDA). The FDA revealed that in female judoka talk, judo was constructed as a sport for all, but also as a male domain and a manly sport with fighting and competition as innate masculine qualities that are not learned. Two sets of wider, competing discourses provided the dominant structure for participants’ constructions of judo: (a) a mass sport discourse versus an elite sport discourse and (b) a gender equality discourse versus a female biological inferiority discourse. Drawing on this discursive context and in seeking to make sense of their experiences, participants constructed a “naturally born fighter” identity. Although this might be an empowering identity for female judoka, it does not advance the agenda of gender equity in martial arts because it constructs “ordinary” women as biologically incapable of competitive judo. Our findings reveal that even in the relatively egalitarian culture of Finland, gender hierarchies persist in judo and that it is only by disrupting prevalent constructions of fighting and competitiveness as masculine that progress toward gender equity can be made.fi
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSpringer New York LLC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesSex Roles
dc.rightsIn Copyright
dc.subject.otherkulttuuri (toimintatavat)
dc.subject.othercultural praxis
dc.subject.othercultural sport psychology
dc.subject.otherfeminist poststructuralist theory
dc.title“Some Women Are Born Fighters” : Discursive Constructions of a Fighter’s Identity by Female Finnish Judo Athletes
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi:jyu-201807113518
dc.contributor.laitosLiikuntatieteellinen tiedekuntafi
dc.contributor.laitosPsykologian laitosfi
dc.contributor.laitosFaculty of Sport and Health Sciencesen
dc.contributor.laitosDepartment of Psychologyen
dc.contributor.oppiainePsykologiafi
dc.contributor.oppiaineLiikuntapedagogiikkafi
dc.contributor.oppiainePsychologyen
dc.contributor.oppiaineSport Pedagogyen
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle
dc.date.updated2018-07-11T09:15:07Z
dc.type.coarhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1
dc.description.reviewstatuspeerReviewed
dc.format.pagerange239-252
dc.relation.issn0360-0025
dc.relation.numberinseries3-4
dc.relation.volume79
dc.type.versionacceptedVersion
dc.rights.copyright© Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2017
dc.rights.accesslevelopenAccessfi
dc.subject.ysoliikuntapsykologia
dc.subject.ysokulttuurisidonnaisuus
dc.subject.ysopoststrukturalismi
dc.subject.ysofeminismi
dc.subject.ysosukupuoli
dc.subject.ysoitsepuolustus
dc.subject.ysojudo
dc.subject.ysokamppailulajit
dc.format.contentfulltext
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jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p18463
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p13592
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p7254
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p5291
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p3507
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p17159
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p6854
dc.rights.urlhttp://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en
dc.relation.doi10.1007/s11199-017-0869-1
dc.type.okmA1


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