Everyday life,sensuality, and body culture

The purpose of this essay is to elucidate two kinds of sensuality, a dominant one and a concealed one, both viewed in the perspective of our everyday lives. My point of departure is the assumption that the interweaving of social power, the body and sensuality is constituted at the level of everyday life, just as sensual resistance arises from this level.Proceeding from a view of women's everyday life, current contradictions, which leave room for a hitherto concealed sensuality will be outlined. In order to elucidate these contradictory trends as well as traces of another sensuality, I shall present an empirical study of women whose everyday lives were radically disrupted.Finally, recent trends in body culture will be discussed and evaluated from a feminist point of view.Thus, viewed from the perspective of sport, the purpose of this essay is to offer new approaches to the subject of sport by drawing attention away from the more conspicuous stage-settings that athletics supplies for our bodies, and focus on the less noticed stage-settings with which we are presented in our everyday life.