Phenomenological insights on motherhood and aquatic embodiment
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Phenomenological insights on motherhood and aquatic embodiment. / Evans, Adam B.; Allen-Collinson, Jacquelyn.
Motherhood and Sport: Collective Stories of Identity and Difference. red. / Lucy Spowart; Kerry R. McGannon. London : Routledge, 2022. s. 15-29 (Qualitative Research in Sport and Physical Activity).Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Bidrag til bog/antologi › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Phenomenological insights on motherhood and aquatic embodiment
AU - Evans, Adam B.
AU - Allen-Collinson, Jacquelyn
N1 - CURIS 2022 NEXS 209
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - This chapter utilizes sociological phenomenology to investigate intercorporeality, intersubjectivity, and sensoriality in leisure swimming, as experienced by mothers with their pre-school aged children. Data from two research studies highlighted salient elements of such experiences, including a shift in women’s intentionality from the self to their children, and increased focus upon their children’s subtle embodied cues. The ability to ‘read’ such cues was assumed by participants to reside in an innate maternal ‘instinct’, related to the management of perceived risks in the pool and changing-room spaces, including problematic traces of the passage of other bodies. Moreover, the maternal experience was replete with emotion work and the management of young children’s embodied behavior. Mothers were cognizant of the tacit etiquette of the pool, including respect for the integrity of the auditory and somatic space of others. Our insights offer an example of the value of a sociological and feminist phenomenological theoretical framework in understanding mothers’ embodied experiences of leisure-swimming.
AB - This chapter utilizes sociological phenomenology to investigate intercorporeality, intersubjectivity, and sensoriality in leisure swimming, as experienced by mothers with their pre-school aged children. Data from two research studies highlighted salient elements of such experiences, including a shift in women’s intentionality from the self to their children, and increased focus upon their children’s subtle embodied cues. The ability to ‘read’ such cues was assumed by participants to reside in an innate maternal ‘instinct’, related to the management of perceived risks in the pool and changing-room spaces, including problematic traces of the passage of other bodies. Moreover, the maternal experience was replete with emotion work and the management of young children’s embodied behavior. Mothers were cognizant of the tacit etiquette of the pool, including respect for the integrity of the auditory and somatic space of others. Our insights offer an example of the value of a sociological and feminist phenomenological theoretical framework in understanding mothers’ embodied experiences of leisure-swimming.
KW - Faculty of Science
KW - Phenomenology
KW - Motherhood
KW - Aquatic physical activity
KW - Leisure swimming
KW - Pre-school children
KW - Embodied experiences
U2 - 10.4324/9781003140757-3
DO - 10.4324/9781003140757-3
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9780367691820
T3 - Qualitative Research in Sport and Physical Activity
SP - 15
EP - 29
BT - Motherhood and Sport
A2 - Spowart, Lucy
A2 - McGannon, Kerry R.
PB - Routledge
CY - London
ER -
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