(Re)Storying embodied running and motherhood: a creative non-fiction approach
2021
In the present study, post-partum embodied subjectivity of five
competitive recreational mother runners of children under 6 years of
age, was explored using narrative inquiry from a story analyst and a
story teller position. This focus expands understanding of sport,
embodiment and good mother ideals using narrative inquiry as a novel
theory to centralize body-self stories contextualized in cultural
narratives. A central theme of ‘reimagining the post-partum self’ was
identified from a story analyst position whereby stories are the objects
of analysis. We shifted to storytellers to present the nuanced
intersecting meanings of this central theme in the form of three
accessible creative nonfiction stories presented as composite vignettes.
The three vignettes were: listening to, and learning from my postpregnant
body; new mum, new athlete; and running (re)connects me to
myself. These findings expand critical insights into the motherhood,
sport and embodiment nexus into the under-studied topic of postpartum
recreational sport. Such work opens pedagogical possibilities
through telling, and witnessing, stories to highlight constraining and
emancipative aspects, of women’s physical participation.
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