ABSTRACT

In the present study, post-partum embodied subjectivity of five competitive recreational mother runners of children under 6 years of age, was explored using narrative inquiry from a story analyst and a story teller position. This focus expands understanding of sport, embodiment and good mother ideals using narrative inquiry as a novel theory to centralize body-self stories contextualized in cultural narratives. A central theme of ‘reimagining the post-partum self’ was identified from a story analyst position whereby stories are the objects of analysis. We shifted to storytellers to present the nuanced intersecting meanings of this central theme in the form of three accessible creative nonfiction stories presented as composite vignettes. The three vignettes were: listening to, and learning from my post-pregnant body; new mum, new athlete; and running (re)connects me to myself. These findings expand critical insights into the motherhood, sport and embodiment nexus into the under-studied topic of post-partum recreational sport. Such work opens pedagogical possibilities through telling, and witnessing, stories to highlight constraining and emancipative aspects, of women’s physical participation.

摘要

在本研究中，使用故事分析师和讲故事者职位的叙事询问，探讨了五位 6 岁以下儿童的竞争性休闲母亲跑步者的产后体现的主观性。这一重点扩展了对运动、体现和好母亲理想的理解，使用叙事探究作为一种新颖的理论，以集中文化叙事中的身体自我故事。“重新想象产后自我”的中心主题是从故事分析师的立场中确定的，故事是分析的对象。我们转向讲故事的人，以三个易于理解的创意非小说故事的形式呈现这一中心主题的微妙交叉含义，这些故事以复合小插曲的形式呈现。三个小插曲是：倾听和学习我怀孕后的身体; 新妈妈，新运动员；跑步（重新）把我和自己联系起来。这些发现扩展了对母性、运动和体现关系的批判性见解，以及产后休闲运动这一研究不足的话题。这样的工作通过讲述和见证故事来突出女性身体参与的约束和解放方面，从而打开了教学的可能性。