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Methods that move
Jessica Francombe
Jan 01, 0001
Driven by a desire to interrogate and articulate the role and place of the body in the study of sport, this paper encourages those who are incited by a richer understanding of the physical to expand and elaborate upon the fleshy...
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Young girls' embodied experiences of femininity and social class
Based on research with middle-upper class 12–13-year-old school girls, we discuss how femininities were embodied and discursively reconstructed in class-based ways. The data suggests the girls understood class antagonisms within...
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Methods that move
Jessica Francombe
Jan 01, 0001
Driven by a desire to interrogate and articulate the role and place of the body in the study of sport, this paper encourages those who are incited by a richer understanding of the physical to expand and elaborate upon the fleshy...
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Critically encountering exer-games & young femininity
Jessica Francombe-Webb
Jul 01, 2016
This paper builds upon previous research into the Nintendo Wii game “We Cheer” through qualitative analysis of the lived experiences of young girls and their playing experiences. I argue here that this multi-layered approach is...
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Learning to leisure
Jessica Francombe
Jan 01, 0001
Within this paper I conceptualise the multitude of preparations and body pedagogies that are grappled with, mastered, and deployed as ‘technologies of femininity.’ These are ‘technologies’ that are engaged by young women in ways...
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Learning to leisure
Jessica Francombe
Jan 01, 0001
Within this paper I conceptualise the multitude of preparations and body pedagogies that are grappled with, mastered, and deployed as ‘technologies of femininity.’ These are ‘technologies’ that are engaged by young women in ways...
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'I cheer, you cheer, we cheer'
Jessica Francombe
Sep 01, 2010
Located within a cultural space situated firmly in the political, technological, and historical context of the contemporary moment and predicated on the contention that all texts are dialogic, the author reads physical cultural...
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Wanting to be Anna
This article adds to the limited literature on coming out and on lesbians in sport by highlighting the presence of lesbian sporting celebrity on Showtime’s series The L Word. Through a reading of The L Word’s...
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Cruising for Olivia
This paper explores issues of sport, sponsorship, and consumption by critically interrogating the mass-mediated “coming out” narratives of professional golfer, Rosie Jones, and professional basketball player, Sheryl Swoopes....
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'I cheer, you cheer, we cheer'
Jessica Francombe
Sep 01, 2010
Located within a cultural space situated firmly in the political, technological, and historical context of the contemporary moment and predicated on the contention that all texts are dialogic, the author reads physical cultural...
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Critically encountering exer-games & young femininity
Jessica Francombe-Webb
Jul 01, 2016
This paper builds upon previous research into the Nintendo Wii game “We Cheer” through qualitative analysis of the lived experiences of young girls and their playing experiences. I argue here that this multi-layered approach is...
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Cruising for Olivia
This paper explores issues of sport, sponsorship, and consumption by critically interrogating the mass-mediated “coming out” narratives of professional golfer, Rosie Jones, and professional basketball player, Sheryl Swoopes....
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Inequalities in older people
Health inequalities result in poor accessibility to primary, secondary, community and preventative care as well as food sources and other health practices such as exercise and physical activity, across the lifespan1,2. However...
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Wanting to be Anna
This article adds to the limited literature on coming out and on lesbians in sport by highlighting the presence of lesbian sporting celebrity on Showtime’s series The L Word. Through a reading of The L Word’s...
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The corporate constitution of national culture
Focussing on corporatized and mediated imaginings of nation – as highly political, public and pedagogic processes – we aim within this paper to address important questions of cultural identification and discursive address. Our...
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I move like you... But different

Our aim in this article is to throw light on the complexity of the presence of the researcher's body in the context of conducting research on and within biopolitical governance. To do so, we present author body-narratives...

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Inequalities in older people
Health inequalities result in poor accessibility to primary, secondary, community and preventative care as well as food sources and other health practices such as exercise and physical activity, across the lifespan1,2. However...
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Young girls' embodied experiences of femininity and social class
Based on research with middle-upper class 12–13-year-old school girls, we discuss how femininities were embodied and discursively reconstructed in class-based ways. The data suggests the girls understood class antagonisms within...
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