What Can A Body Do?: Exploring Female Adolescent Sporting Bodies
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2014-08-28
Authors
Land, Nicole
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As embodiment riddles the body, this thesis interrogates embodiment as a riddle by
foregrounding ethical, epistemological, and ontological questions of what embodiment(s) and bodies might be capable of creating and performing. Articulating local embodiments while also attempting to work through the puzzle of embodiment to playfully illustrate multiple responses to embodiment, this thesis incorporates images and discussion generated with a group of female PeeWee hockey players. Thinking with Deleuze and Guattari, Braidotti, Barad, Kirby, and Grosz, I experiment with articulating tentative, enfleshed, entangled, and emplaced local embodiment(s) through the hockey-bodies of female adolescent athletes.
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sport, female, adolescent, body, agential realism, posthuman, embodiment