Women, Sport and Exercise in the Asia-Pacific Region : Domination, Resistance, Accommodation (Paperback)

1 Introduction: Rest and the West ? present absence of non-Western research Gyozo Molnar, Sara N. Amin and Yoko Kanemasu Part I Nation-building and Nationalism 2 Women, Sport and Gender Politics in Taiwan Ying Chiang and Alan Bairner 3 The politics of female football in North Korea: socialism, nationalism, and propaganda Jung Woo Lee 4 Resurgence of ethnic sports in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan: Still hunting for women Elena Kim and Elena Molchanova 5 Her ‘Soldiering’ On: Female Athletes in Combat Sports Negotiating Thailand’s Gender Politics Sukritaya Jukping Part II Sport, Physical Activity and Empowerment 6 "The right way for me to do things for me": Experiences of some Afghan women in entering and practicing karate Sara N. Amin 7 Going It Alone and Strong: Athletic Indo-Fijian Women and Everyday Resistance Yoko Kanemasu 8 Girls and Sports in Samoa: Culture, Policy and Practice in Urban and Rural Communities Suzie Schuster and Penelope Schoeffel 9 Discursive Construction of Athletic Nutrition in Bodybuilding: from Ideology to Pharmacology of the Female body in Kazakhstan Zhanar Sekerbayeva Part III Challenges, Change and Development 10 Fiji's Women Rugby Players: Finding Motivation in a ‘Hostile’ Environment Yoko Kanemasu, James Johnson and Gyozo Molnar 11 Improving water, sanitation and hygiene facilities and women’s participation in netball in Papua New Guinea Lua Rikis, Leentje Be’Soer, Joanna Lamb, Emily Ryan and Stephanie Franet 12 Women’s Sports in Japan: Enters a Period of Change Osamu Takamine 13 Women and sports in the Solomon Islands Jeremy Dorovolomo, Billy Fito’o, Jack Maebuta, Patrick Miniti and Gordon Nanau 14 Increasing mobility and visibility of women and adolescent girls through a sport- based gender intervention in low-income communities in Mumbai Madhumita Das, Shweta Bankar and Ravi Verma Part IV Transnationality and Globalisation 15 Reconstructing body and mind: Narratives of health and wellbeing in self-help books from global East Asia Daniel Nehring 16 Forging a new research imagination regarding Chinese girls’ physical activity Bonnie Pang