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The (Arab) American Football Field : = Examining Intersections of Sport and Social Identity Among Arab American Muslim Women in Detroit, MI.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	The (Arab) American Football Field :/
其他題名:	Examining Intersections of Sport and Social Identity Among Arab American Muslim Women in Detroit, MI.
作者:	Sutton, Frances Santagate.
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (228 pages)
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-09, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-09A.
標題:	Cultural anthropology. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=30360111click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798371915948

The (Arab) American Football Field : = Examining Intersections of Sport and Social Identity Among Arab American Muslim Women in Detroit, MI.
Sutton, Frances Santagate.

The (Arab) American Football Field :Examining Intersections of Sport and Social Identity Among Arab American Muslim Women in Detroit, MI. - 1 online resource (228 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-09, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Ohio State University, 2022.

Includes bibliographical references

Sports spectating is a site where supporters build their identities and navigate experiences of belonging within their communities. In this dissertation, I explore spectator experiences of Arab American Muslim women in Southeast Detroit and examine how women create social identities through their experiences of watching and following American football. Arab and Muslim women's experiences, particularly with sport, have often been represented in Orientalist and Islamophobic ways that inaccurately portray them as meek and oppressed rather than as agents. This research project uses a feminist framework to highlight Arab and Muslim women's diverse voices, histories, and experiences. I critically examine the different ways women engage in spectator culture to understand how it can be a joyful site of identity building as well as a site where women negotiate their inclusion and belonging. The data for this project was collected through participant observation at high school football games and other sport spaces and events in a large Arab American community in Southeast Detroit. I also conducted semi-structured interviews with Arab American Muslim women and members of their family and peer groups. All participants were local sports fans and supporters who were asked about their experiences within their spectator communities. Thematic analysis of interviews revealed that women consider sports to be a key aspect of the relationships they build within families, as well as a place to create community and identity among friends, neighbors, and other spectators in stadiums and online spaces. In the context of watching and following sports, Arab American Muslim women navigate gender expectations from their social groups and take different approaches to challenging and maintaining gender norms while establishing their belonging in sport spaces, from the high school football bleachers to Ford Field. Findings demonstrate that watching and supporting local sports is important to women's constructions of selfhood and that Arab American Muslim women's experiences in spectator spaces are diverse. While the majority of research about Muslim women and sport focuses on the ways in which Muslim women are outsiders in sport culture, my research demonstrates the many ways they engage with sport and use it as a site for creating connections and expanding perceptions of what it means to be an Arab American Muslim woman as well as a sports spectator. These findings also highlight the importance of using a critical feminist analysis to examine minority women's experiences in sport spaces as their perspectives and histories offer new insights about what it means to experience and create community that are not represented in the White, Masculine, Heterosexual, Christian model often used to examine sport culture.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798371915948Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Cultural anthropology.
Subjects--Index Terms:

American footballIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

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