This book explores the controversial social media practices engaged in by girls and young
women, including sexual self-representations on social network sites, sexting, and self-harm …

Palgrave's New Femininities in Digital, Physical and Sporting Cultures series is dedicated to
exploring emerging forms and expressions of femininity, feminist activism and politics in an …

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the value of autoethnography as a qualitative
methodology, document the current literature using autoethnographic approaches, and …

This paper takes an affective approach to theorizing the production and circulation of
fitspiration media within a women's Instagram fitness community. In the context of fitness …

As a new breed of lifestyle sport enthusiasts' derby grrrls' are pushing the boundaries of
gender as they negotiate the nexus of pleasure, pain and power relations. Offering a socio …

Colombian girls are not encouraged from playing sport due to gendered roles that idealize
girls as “delicate” and reserve sport as an activity for boys. Since the early and mid-2000s …

Building upon and extending a growing strand of research engaging feminist new
materialisms to understand women's moving bodies as more-than-human phenomena, this …

Developing the concept of kinaesthetics, this article undertakes a critical re-description of
amateur sports and fitness to explore the topographies, materials, innovation, and socialities …

This chapter explores how the “affective turn” within feminist theory has shaped new ways of
thinking about gendered power relations, subjectivities and embodied sport experiences …

In this paper, we put forward a proposal for a critical geography of physical activity that
attunes to experience while centring on the socio‐spatial processes and power structures …