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This path-breaking book analyses the experiences of young sporting women with physical impairments. Taking phenomenology as a point of departure, Elisabet Apelmo explores how the young women handle living with a body which, on the one hand, is viewed as deviant – the disabled body – and on the other hand is viewed as accomplished – the sporting body. A polarization is apparent between the weak, which is manifested through the expression of belonging as ""we"", and the strong individual. The subject position as strong, positive and capable – as a reaction towards the weak, the negative – is one of the few positions that are available to them. Furthermore, the book demonstrates the strategies of resistance the young women develop against the marginalisation, stereotyping and othering they experience in their everyday lives. Finally, the author discusses the paradox of gender. Disabled bodies are often seen as non-gendered, however, these young women’s experiences are structured by both the gender regimes within sports and the larger gender order of the society.

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'This book applies phenomenology to a much understudied area-that of women with disabilities in sport. The book interrogates the role that gender plays across political, social and sporting domains while also deepening our understanding of the physicality of the human body and insights into the feminist mind.' - Anjali J. Forber-Pratt, Vanderbilt University, U.S.A and Two-time U.S. Paralympian `What a gem! The book offers an evocative and theoretically insightful account of sporting women and disability. The content covered is expansive, topical, and clear. Riveting to read, brimming with rich qualitative data and ideas, it fills an important void in the field.' - Brett Smith, University of Birmingham, UK

'This book applies phenomenology to a much understudied area-that of women with disabilities in sport. The book interrogates the role that gender plays across political, social and sporting domains while also deepening our understanding of the physicality of the human body and insights into the feminist mind.' - Anjali J. Forber-Pratt, Vanderbilt University, U.S.A and Two-time U.S. Paralympian 'What a gem! The book offers an evocative and theoretically insightful account of sporting women and disability. The content covered is expansive, topical, and clear. Riveting to read, brimming with rich qualitative data and ideas, it fills an important void in the field.' - Brett Smith, University of Birmingham, UK

'This book applies phenomenology to a much understudied area—that of women with disabilities in sport. The book interrogates the role that gender plays across political, social and sporting domains while also deepening our understanding of the physicality of the human body and insights into the feminist mind.' - Anjali J. Forber-Pratt, Vanderbilt University, U.S.A and Two-time U.S. Paralympian ‘What a gem! The book offers an evocative and theoretically insightful account of sporting women and disability. The content covered is expansive, topical, and clear. Riveting to read, brimming with rich qualitative data and ideas, it fills an important void in the field.’ - Brett Smith, University of Birmingham, UK 'This book applies phenomenology to a much understudied area—that of women with disabilities in sport. The book interrogates the role that gender plays across political, social and sporting domains while also deepening our understanding of the physicality of the human body and insights into the feminist mind.' - Anjali J. Forber-Pratt, Vanderbilt University, U.S.A and Two-time U.S. Paralympian ‘What a gem! The book offers an evocative and theoretically insightful account of sporting women and disability. The content covered is expansive, topical, and clear. Riveting to read, brimming with rich qualitative data and ideas, it fills an important void in the field.’ - Brett Smith, University of Birmingham, UK 'This book must be welcomed as a very important contribution to the discussion of sport, gender and disability. And to take it further, the study gives inspiration and impetus to an interesting and required discussion of what elite disability sport has to offer women with disability, in terms of finding themselves as valued subjects and females in their own right, being the bodies they are.' -Anne-Merete Kissow, Nordic Sports Forum

'This book applies phenomenology to a much understudied area-that of women with disabilities in sport. The book interrogates the role that gender plays across political, social and sporting domains while also deepening our understanding of the physicality of the human body and insights into the feminist mind.' - Anjali J. Forber-Pratt, Vanderbilt University, U.S.A and Two-time U.S. Paralympian `What a gem! The book offers an evocative and theoretically insightful account of sporting women and disability. The content covered is expansive, topical, and clear. Riveting to read, brimming with rich qualitative data and ideas, it fills an important void in the field.' - Brett Smith, University of Birmingham, UK

'This book applies phenomenology to a much understudied area-that of women with disabilities in sport. The book interrogates the role that gender plays across political, social and sporting domains while also deepening our understanding of the physicality of the human body and insights into the feminist mind.' - Anjali J. Forber-Pratt, Vanderbilt University, U.S.A and Two-time U.S. Paralympian 'What a gem! The book offers an evocative and theoretically insightful account of sporting women and disability. The content covered is expansive, topical, and clear. Riveting to read, brimming with rich qualitative data and ideas, it fills an important void in the field.' - Brett Smith, University of Birmingham, UK 'This book applies phenomenology to a much understudied area-that of women with disabilities in sport. The book interrogates the role that gender plays across political, social and sporting domains while also deepening our understanding of the physicality of the human body and insights into the feminist mind.' - Anjali J. Forber-Pratt, Vanderbilt University, U.S.A and Two-time U.S. Paralympian 'What a gem! The book offers an evocative and theoretically insightful account of sporting women and disability. The content covered is expansive, topical, and clear. Riveting to read, brimming with rich qualitative data and ideas, it fills an important void in the field.' - Brett Smith, University of Birmingham, UK 'This book must be welcomed as a very important contribution to the discussion of sport, gender and disability. And to take it further, the study gives inspiration and impetus to an interesting and required discussion of what elite disability sport has to offer women with disability, in terms of finding themselves as valued subjects and females in their own right, being the bodies they are.' -Anne-Merete Kissow, Nordic Sports Forum

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Elisabet Apelmo is Lecturer in the Department of Social Work at Malmö University, Sweden. She is a visual artist with a PhD in Sociology.

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