Volume 43, Issue 1, July 2024, Pages 181–189
Mouhamed Momar Talla NDONGO1 and Fatou Dame LOUM2
1 Department of Sports and physical education, Cheikh Anta Diop University, teacher-researcher at the National Higher, Dakar Institute of Popular Education and Sport, Senegal
2 Department of Sports and physical education, Cheikh Anta Diop University, teacher-researcher at the National Higher, Dakar Institute of Popular Education and Sport, Senegal
Original language: English
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This study focuses on the practice of fitness among Senegalese women. It analyzes, according to their marital situation, the conditions or modalities of practice, the reasons for their investment as well as their profiles by identifying their socio-professional characteristics. The survey was carried out in Dakar and was carried out using a questionnaire survey. The results highlight their age, their level of education, their preferences in terms of clothing, concepts and their socio-economic situation. Added to this are the frequency, the practice spaces frequented, the representations they have of the male gaze as well as the positions they occupy during the sessions. The analysis reveals a logic of emancipation by freeing oneself from stereotypes and roles. traditional.
Author Keywords: Fitness, female, affirmation, emancipation, Senegal.
Mouhamed Momar Talla NDONGO1 and Fatou Dame LOUM2
1 Department of Sports and physical education, Cheikh Anta Diop University, teacher-researcher at the National Higher, Dakar Institute of Popular Education and Sport, Senegal
2 Department of Sports and physical education, Cheikh Anta Diop University, teacher-researcher at the National Higher, Dakar Institute of Popular Education and Sport, Senegal
Original language: English
Copyright © 2024 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
This study focuses on the practice of fitness among Senegalese women. It analyzes, according to their marital situation, the conditions or modalities of practice, the reasons for their investment as well as their profiles by identifying their socio-professional characteristics. The survey was carried out in Dakar and was carried out using a questionnaire survey. The results highlight their age, their level of education, their preferences in terms of clothing, concepts and their socio-economic situation. Added to this are the frequency, the practice spaces frequented, the representations they have of the male gaze as well as the positions they occupy during the sessions. The analysis reveals a logic of emancipation by freeing oneself from stereotypes and roles. traditional.
Author Keywords: Fitness, female, affirmation, emancipation, Senegal.
How to Cite this Article
Mouhamed Momar Talla NDONGO and Fatou Dame LOUM, “Fitness in Senegal: A new form of affirmation of female emancipation,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 181–189, July 2024.
