Moving bodies beyond the social/biological divide: Toward theoretical and transdisciplinary adventures

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dc.contributor.authorThorpe, Holly Aysha
dc.date.accessioned2013-05-23T02:28:45Z
dc.date.available2013-05-23T02:28:45Z
dc.date.copyright2012-06-14
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractIn this paper I call for ‘new forms of thinking and new ways of theorizing’ the complex relations between the biological and social in sport and physical culture. I illustrate the inseparability of our biological and social bodies in sport and physical culture via the case of exercise and female reproductive hormones. Inspired by feminist biologists and philosophers of science such as Lynda Birke and Elizabeth Grosz, I describe my current research project in which I am seeking to create space for female exercisers’ (as distinct from female athletes) voices about their embodied experiences of exercise-associated amenorrhea. I offer reflections from my ongoing study and reveal a number of dilemmas that emerge as I consider how we might bring biology—and particularly hormones—back into conversations about women's moving bodies in non-reductionist and non-determinist terms. I conclude by advocating the need for more transdisciplinary approaches to help us move toward more multidimensional understandings of the body in sport and physical culture.en_NZ
dc.identifier.citationThorpe, H. (2012). Moving bodies beyond the social/biological divide: toward theoretical and transdisciplinary adventures. Sport, Education and Society, published online 14 June 2012, 1-21.en_NZ
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/13573322.2012.691092en_NZ
dc.identifier.issn1357-3322
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10289/7642
dc.language.isoenen_NZ
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis (Routledge)en_NZ
dc.relation.isPartOfSport, Society and Educationen_NZ
dc.relation.ispartofSport, Education and Society
dc.subjectbiologyen_NZ
dc.subjectsociologyen_NZ
dc.subjectbodiesen_NZ
dc.subjecttransdisciplinaryen_NZ
dc.subjectwomenen_NZ
dc.subjectexerciseen_NZ
dc.titleMoving bodies beyond the social/biological divide: Toward theoretical and transdisciplinary adventuresen_NZ
dc.typeJournal Articleen_NZ
pubs.begin-page1en_NZ
pubs.elements-id37767
pubs.end-page21en_NZ
pubs.issue5en_NZ
pubs.volume_onlineen_NZ
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