Abstract
This paper considers sportswomen’s injuries through a lens attentive to discourses of women’s empowerment in sport and women’s experience of sexual violence. In-depth interviews with women rugby players in Texas and California suggest that although sportswomen consider their bruises to be a sign of their toughness, whether they experience sympathy or harassment for showing these bruises in public depends on their perceived adherence to norms of middle-class respectability. Although women rugby players are proud of their bruises, the kinds of resistance practices they engage in by showing off their injuries is complicated by their embodiment of respectability, and risks reproducing forms of social inequality by marginalizing other women.
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