Real Women Run

Running as Feminist Embodiment

Sandra Faulkner (Bowling Green State University, USA)

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Routledge
25 January 2018

Gender studies: women; Sociology: sport & leisure; Track & field sports, athletics

Series: Innovative Ethnographies

Real Women Run is an innovative feminist ethnography that consists of a series of linked essays and presentations about women who run at the intersections of queer, feminist, and running identities. Faulkner uses feminist grounded theory, poetic inquiry, and qualitative content analysis to examine women’s embodied stories of running: how they run, how running fits into the context of their lives and relationships, how they enact or challenge cultural scripts of women’s activities and normative running bodies, and what running means for their lives and identities. During a two-and-a-half-year ethnography with women who run, Faulkner engaged in an intersectional qualitative content analysis of websites and blogs targeted to women runners, a grounded theory poetic analysis of 41 interviews with women who run, and participant observation at road races.

Real Women Run speaks to the call for a more physical feminism. This ethnography sees women’s physical and mental strength developed through running as a way to embrace the contradictions between a deconstructed focus on the mind/body split and the focus on individuals’ actual material bodies and their everyday interactions with their bodies and through their bodies with the world around them.

By: Sandra Faulkner (Bowling Green State University USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 204g
ISBN: 9781138218307
ISBN 10: 1138218308
Series: Innovative Ethnographies
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 25 January 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chapter One Women Running Chapter Two Woman, Running Chapter Three Real Women Run Chapter Four Women Running Online Chapter Five Running as Feminist Embodiment

Sandra L. Faulkner is Professor of Communication and Director of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Bowling Green State University, Ohio. Her research interests include qualitative methodology, poetic inquiry, and the relationships among culture, identities, and sexualities in close relationships. Faulkner is the recipient of the 2013 Knower Outstanding Article Award from the National Communication Association, and the 2016 Norman K. Denzin Qualitative Research Award.