Analysing the costs and benefits of "fake female empowerment" in the martial arts.

Autor/in	Morgan, Kai
Titel	Analysing the costs and benefits of "fake female empowerment" in the martial arts. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Analyse der Kosten und des Nutzens vom "falschen weiblichen Empowerment" in den Martial Arts.
Quelle	In: Journal of martial arts research, 3 (2020) 3, [23 S.] PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2567-8221
DOI	10.15495/ojs_25678221_33_144
Schlagwörter	Erfahrung; Gender Mainstreaming; Gewalt; Selbstvertrauen; Selbstverwirklichung; Wille; Soziale Entwicklung; Frau; Geschlechterforschung; Erfahrung; Frau; Frauensport; Gewalt; Kampfsport; Schmerz; Selbstvertrauen; Sportsoziologie; Training; Selbstverwirklichung; Sportpädagogik; Lehren; Berufserfahrung; Wille; Geschlechterforschung; Gender Mainstreaming; Lehren; Schmerz; Verletzungsgefahr; Sozialer Einfluss; Frauensport; Kampfsport; Kraft (Physiol); Sportpädagogik; Sportsoziologie; Training; Berufserfahrung; Effektivität; Effektivität
Abstract	The martial arts are often said to be "empowering" for women. However, in some instances this purported empowerment can appear somehow inauthentic. Genuine empowerment should result in the student becoming more powerful in some way. This paper coins the phrase "fake female empowerment" to denote a form of martial arts training experience that can look and feel like empowerment for women and girls, while in reality doing nothing to increase their actual power, or even decreasing it. Examples of "fake female empowerment" in the martial arts explored in this paper include: the promise that martial arts training will deliver a "shapely" body; encouragement to endure harmful pain and injury in the name of desensitization; and conversely, the encouragement to ignore the complex realities of violence in one's practice. The paper notes that while its starting point is women's experience, most of the issues covered apply equally to people of all genders. It explores the differences between "real" and "fake" empowerment for female students, and presents a light-touch cost/benefit analysis in order to understand and articulate the reasons for the phenomenon of "fake female empowerment". (Autor).
Erfasst von	Bundesinstitut für Sportwissenschaft, Bonn
Update	2023/1