Abstract
ABSTRACT In this paper, we draw upon new materialist scholar Karen Barad’s writings on bodily boundaries and entanglements to explore the materiality of moving bodies. Engaging with Barad, we are interested in the ways humans and nonhumans become inextricably linked during movement practices through the case of women’s embodied relations with their sports bras. Using a diffractive research approach, we speak to different ways of knowing and thinking about moving bodies that consider the various forms of materiality that become entangled during physical activity. To accomplish this, we focus on three body-bra entanglements: i) sweat/bra/body, ii) forces/movement/bra, and iii) memories/bra/humans. We explore how bodily boundaries are constantly being formed and renegotiated as a result of the various human-nonhuman intra-actions. In so doing, this paper highlights the agency of mundane material objects (such as the sports bra) as entangled in women’s movement experiences.
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