{"id":6383,"date":"2022-10-31T00:39:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T13:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/?p=6383"},"modified":"2022-11-30T15:25:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T04:25:38","slug":"new-book-women-and-martial-art-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/?p=6383","title":{"rendered":"New book &#8211; Women and Martial Art in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New book &#8211; Women and Martial Art in Japan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by Dr Kate Sylvester, Life Member of AKR<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.taylorfrancis.com\/books\/mono\/10.4324\/9781003256229\/women-martial-art-japan-kate-sylvester\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/images.tandf.co.uk\/common\/jackets\/crclarge\/978100325\/9781003256229.jpg\" alt=\"Women and Martial Art in Japan.\" width=\"180\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.taylorfrancis.com\/books\/mono\/10.4324\/9781003256229\/women-martial-art-japan-kate-sylvester\">https:\/\/www.taylorfrancis.com\/books\/mono\/10.4324\/9781003256229\/women-martial-art-japan-kate-sylvester<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This book, based on extensive original research, examines the practice by women in a university sport setting of kendo, the Japanese martial art which, using bamboo swords as well as protective armour, and descended from traditional swordsmanship, instils in its practitioners, besides physical skills, societal values of etiquette and resilience as well connecting them to a \u201ctraditional\u201d outlook, which includes a gendered cultural identity. The book therefore illustrates an unexplored example of identity construction in Japan, one which legitimises women\u2019s sport experiences within a male-centric physical culture, unpacks the notion of \u201ctradition\u201d in kendo and unravels its stultifying control over women\u2019s kendo participation, and discusses the androgenicity of women\u2019s participation to highlight its subversive potential to develop women as leaders in sport, politics, and other fields which continue to be very male dominated in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The book acknowledges the AKR and is an important resource book for both the general and the academic audiences.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New book &#8211; Women and Martial Art in Japan by Dr Kate Sylvester, Life Member of AKR https:\/\/www.taylorfrancis.com\/books\/mono\/10.4324\/9781003256229\/women-martial-art-japan-kate-sylvester This book, based on extensive original research, examines the practice by women &#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,28,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6383"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6415,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6383\/revisions\/6415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}