Sport, Spinal Cord Injury, Embodied Masculinities, and the Dilemmas of Narrative Identity  

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Sparkes, Andrew C. ; Smith, Brett

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Men and Masculinities vol. 4 no. 3 (Jan. 2002), page 258-285.
Topik: sport; spinal cord injury; identity; masculinities; narrative
Fulltext: 258MMS43.pdf (132.16KB)

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This article focuses on the narrative identity dilemmas of four men who have experienced spinal cord injury (SCI) through playing rugby football union and nowdef ine themselves as disabled. The biographical data illustrate howbody-self relationships moved from an absent presence in the lives of these men to something that was other, problematic, and alien. This transformation instigated anxieties concerning the combined loss of specific masculine and athletic identities that were formerly at the apex of the participants’identity hierarchy. In such circumstances, the desire for a restored self is highlighted, as are the limited narrative resources that frame this coping strategy. Suggestions for howthis situation might be changed are then offered.

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