‘It's actually very normal that I'm different’. How physically disabled youth discursively construct and position their body/self
Volume: 20, Issue: 2, Pages: 152 - 170
Published: Dec 5, 2012
Abstract
In this paper, we explore how physically disabled youth who participate in mainstream education discursively construct and position themselves in relation to dominant discourses about sport and physicality that mark their bodies as ‘abnormal’ and ‘deviant’. We employ a feminist poststructuralist perspective to analyze the narratives about sport, physical education (PE), the body and self of four physically disabled Dutch youngsters. Our results...
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Title
‘It's actually very normal that I'm different’. How physically disabled youth discursively construct and position their body/self
Published Date
Dec 5, 2012
Volume
20
Issue
2
Pages
152 - 170
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