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Sportswomen as ‘biocultural creatures’: understanding embodied health experiences across sporting cultures
BioSocieties ( IF 1.3 ) Pub Date : 2019-11-28 , DOI: 10.1057/s41292-019-00176-2
Holly Thorpe , Marianne Clark , Julie Brice

Over the past decade, a critical mass of feminist scholars has been working to develop new ways of understanding the complex interactions between the social and biological body. Working broadly under the umbrella of ‘new materialisms,’ a subgroup of feminist scholars is proposing alternative non-dualistic models for engaging with biology, corporeality, science, and matter. In this study, we take inspiration from this body of literature, and particularly Samantha Frost’s recent concept of ‘biocultural creatures’ to explore the complex entanglements between sporting cultures and women’s biological bodies. In conceiving of biology differently, this study reveals the dynamism and plasticity of the biocultural sporting body and reveals sportswomen as active agents in these processes. Interviews with sportswomen in two different sporting cultures—endurance multi-sport events (triathlon and Ironman) and rugby sevens—offer rich insights into how different body ideals, physical requirements, support structures, and performance cultures intra-act with women’s biological bodies, and particularly their embodied experiences of the health condition known as Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S). Ultimately, this study reveals sportswomen as biocultural creatives, “constantly composing, decomposing and recomposing” (Frost 2016, p. 149) in response to their engagement with distinctive sporting habitats.

中文翻译:

女运动员作为“生物文化生物”:理解跨体育文化的具体健康体验

在过去的十年中,一大批女权主义学者一直致力于开发理解社会和生物体之间复杂相互作用的新方法。在“新唯物主义”的保护伞下,一群女权主义学者提出了替代的非二元模型,用于研究生物学、肉体、科学和物质。在这项研究中,我们从这些文学作品中汲取灵感,特别是萨曼莎·弗罗斯特 (Samantha Frost) 最近提出的“生物文化生物”概念,以探索体育文化与女性生物体之间的复杂纠葛。本研究以不同的方式理解生物学,揭示了生物文化运动身体的活力和可塑性,并揭示了运动员在这些过程中的积极作用。对两种不同体育文化中的女运动员的采访——耐力多项运动项目(铁人三项和铁人三项)和七人制橄榄球——提供了关于不同的身体理想、身体要求、支持结构和表现文化如何与女性生理身体相互作用的丰富见解,以及特别是他们对被称为运动中相对能量缺乏症 (RED-S) 的健康状况的具体体验。最终,这项研究揭示了女运动员作为生物文化创意者,“不断地组成、分解和重新组成”(弗罗斯特,2016 年,第 149 页),以响应她们与独特的体育栖息地的接触。尤其是他们对被称为运动中相对能量缺乏症 (RED-S) 的健康状况的具体体验。最终,这项研究揭示了女运动员作为生物文化创意者,“不断地组成、分解和重新组成”(弗罗斯特,2016 年,第 149 页),以响应她们与独特的体育栖息地的接触。尤其是他们对被称为运动中相对能量缺乏症 (RED-S) 的健康状况的具体体验。最终,这项研究揭示了女运动员作为生物文化创意者,“不断地组成、分解和重新组成”(弗罗斯特,2016 年,第 149 页),以回应她们与独特的体育栖息地的接触。
更新日期:2019-11-28
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