When bodies move in certain contexts, it can mean very different things for different people.
In our society, some bodies are more valued than others, and detrimentally, this can mean …

The purpose of this narrative inquiry is two-fold: first, to illuminate the views and experiences
of Brazilian female Paralympians that helped shape their narrative identities, and second, to …

Although disabled female athletes have long participated in sport, their participation was
problematized by conformity to the “ideals of acceptable physicality within the limits of …

In this article, I draw on the personal narratives of 41 Brazilian Paralympic athletes who
competed in the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games to explore their multiple identities shaped …

Wheelchair rugby was developed in Canada in the 1970s and named an official Paralympic
sport in 2000. Wheelchair rugby is one of the few Paralympic or Olympic sports that includes …

Since the turn of the millennium, the field of sport for development (SFD) has observed an
increasing number of organisations turning to sport as a means of addressing social …

Gender in sport is deeply contradictory and complex: women are oppressed by men in sport;
both women and men are oppressed in sport; and women and men experience freedom in …