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In the Netherlands, girls and young women are increasingly active in women-only kickboxing. The general assumption, in the Netherlands and in western Europe more broadly, is that women's sport is a form of secular, feminist empowerment. Muslim women's participation would then exemplify the incongruence of Islam with the modern, secular nation-state. Punching Back provides a detailed ethnographic study that contests this view by showing that young Muslim women who kickbox establish agentive selves by playing with gender norms, challenging expectations, and living out their religious subjectivities.

Kickboxing --- Muslim women --- Self-realization in women --- Sports and state --- Sports for women --- Sports --- Women martial artists --- SPORTS & RECREATION / Sociology of Sports. --- Conduct of life. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Social aspects --- Religious aspects --- Islam. --- Sociology, Anthropology (General), Gender Studies and Sexuality. --- Kick-boxing --- Martial arts --- Female martial artists --- Martial artists --- Women athletes --- Women --- Women's sports --- Physical education for women --- Sports policy --- State and sports --- Government policy --- Psychology --- SPORTS & RECREATION / Sociology of Sports --- Conduct of life --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Islam