Punching Back

Gender, Religion and Belonging in Women-Only Kickboxing

By: Jasmijn Rana

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Paperback | 15 May 2026

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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 womenâs sport is a form of secular, feminist empowerment. Muslim womenâs 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.

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