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Podcast: New Books in Anthropology
Episode: Kate Sylvester, "Women and Martial Art in Japan" (Routledge, 2022)
Description: Kate Sylvesterâs Women and Martial Art in Japan (Routledge 2023) examines sport, gender, and society in Japan through the authorâs extensive experience and ethnographic research as a kendo practitioner both at elite international levels and in Japan. Sylvester focuses on kendo as a university sport, placing her experiences as a veteran (foreign) competitor working within the hierarchies of that system in the context of the ideologies and lived realities of gender in contemporary Japan. In doing so, Women and Martial Art in Japan unpacks the âsporting masculinityâ that permeates womenâs experiences of sport within a masculinist culture, and places the...