@article{ref1,
title="Getting Physical",
journal="Journal of contemporary ethnography",
year="2003",
author="De Welde, Kristine",
volume="32",
number="3",
pages="247-278",
abstract="This article presents ethnographic research on a women's self-defense course and proposes that socially available gender narratives of white femininity are potentially disempowering and victimizing to women. Changes in self-narratives as a result of the course reflect a more powerful self that challenges dominant discourses. The process illustrated in this article consists of reframing victimization, liberating the self, and enabling the body in a transformation of gender and self-narratives that affirm “femininity” while subverting its defining ideologies. What results is a physical agency within which narratives about femininity are reinterpreted and reembodied as powerful instead of vulnerable.<p />",
language="",
issn="0891-2416",
doi="10.1177/0891241603032003001",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0891241603032003001"
}