TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2003//
TI  - Getting Physical
JO  - Journal of contemporary ethnography
A1  - De Welde, Kristine
SP  - 247
EP  - 278
VL  - 32
IS  - 3
N2  - 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 /> 
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SN  - 0891-2416
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0891241603032003001
ID  - ref1
ER  -