inhibited intentionality

is the idea that individuals come to restrict themselves through restricting how they use their bodies, such as how 'throwing like a girl' is reflective of an effort by girls to take up less space in what they do.

Iris Marion Young (1990) in 'Throwing like a Girl' asks how girls come to be 'like girls' through how they come to inhabit their bodies. Girls come to take up less space by what they do, and by what they do not do. Girls come to restrict themselves through restricting how they use their bodies. Young calls this restriction an 'inhibited intentionality,' using the example of how girls learn to throw, by not getting their bodies behind an action. (25)

inhibited intentionality, n.Definitions

inhibited intentionality