Young Muslim Women and Sport: the Impact of Identity Work
Young Muslim Women and Sport: the Impact of Identity Work
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年轻穆斯林妇女与体育：身份工作的影响
DOI：
10.1080/02614360500200722
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发表时间：
2006
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影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
Kristin Walseth
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作者：
Kristin Walseth
摘要本文主要探讨穆斯林青年妇女的身份认同工作与她们参与体育活动的关系。“身份工作”的概念被用来强调身份建构的动态方面。该研究基于对21名年龄在16至25岁之间、有移民背景、居住在挪威的穆斯林女性的生活史采访。这项研究表明，年轻穆斯林妇女的身份认同工作是如何受到她们的种族和宗教集体身份的影响的。虽然有些妇女明确地将自己置于自己的种族认同之中，但其他人则挑战其种族认同的界限，有些年轻妇女选择更多地关注宗教而不是种族。这项研究说明了两种主要模式，将年轻穆斯林女性的身份认同工作与她们参与体育和体育活动联系起来。首先，作为一名年轻女性，参加体育运动被视为对她们种族身份界限的挑战。因此，将自己明确定位在种族认同框架内的年轻女性对体育不感兴趣，因为从事体育运动不被视为受人尊敬的女性气质。通过参加体育运动来挑战女性理想的年轻女性经历过因为参加体育运动而受到制裁或骚扰的经历。第二，在那些将宗教（伊斯兰教）视为比种族更重要的身份认同来源的人中，由于伊斯兰教的健康方面，体育活动被视为重要。
Abstract This article focuses on the relationship between young Muslim women’s identity work and their involvement in sport and physical activities. The concept of ‘identity work’ is used to underline the dynamic aspect of identity construction. The study is based on life‐history interviews with 21 Muslim women with immigrant backgrounds living in Norway, aged between 16 and 25 years. The study demonstrates how young Muslim women’s identity work is influenced by their ethnic and religious collective identities. While some of the women situate themselves clearly within their ethnic identity, others challenge the boundaries of their ethnic identity and some of the young women choose to focus more on religion than ethnicity. The study illustrates two major patterns that link young Muslim women’s identity work to their involvement in sport and physical activity. First, being a young woman and participating in sport is seen as a challenge to the boundaries of their ethnic identities. Therefore, young women who position themselves clearly within the framework of their ethnic identities are not interested in sport because doing sport is not seen as a respectable femininity. The young women who challenge the ideal of femininity by participating in sport have experienced being sanctioned or harassed because they participate in sport. Second, among those who regard religion (Islam) as a more important source of identification than ethnicity, being physically active is seen as important because of Islam’s health aspects.