Global perspectives on women in combat sports
Subtitle: women warriors around the world
By: edited by Alex Channon, University of Greenwich, UK, Christopher R. Matthews, University of Brighton, UK
Series: Global culture and sport series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9781137439352
Subjects: Women boxers; Women martial artists; Cross-cultural studies; Boxing; Martial arts
Description: This volume offers a wide-reaching overview of current academic research on women's participation in combat sports within a range of different national and trans-national contexts, detailing many of the struggles and opportunities experienced by women at various levels of engagement within sports such as boxing, wrestling, and mixed martial arts.
Table of contents: title: Approaching the Gendered Phenomenon of Women Warriors /  Alex Channon & Christopher R Matthews; title: Moral Guardians, Mini-Skirts and Nicola Adams : The Changing Media Discourse of Women's Boxing / Amy Godoy-Pressland; title: The Boxers of Kabul : Women, Boxing and Islam / Hillary Kipnis & Jayne Caudwell; title: Chicks Fighting in a Cage : A Philosophical Critique of Gender Constructions in the Ultimate Fighting Championship / Charlene Weaving; title: Beauty and Strength : Defining the Female Body in The Ultimate Fighter Season 20 Promotional Campaign / LA Jennings; title: Gender Inequality in Olympic Boxing : Exploring Structuration through Online Resistance Against Weight Category Restrictions / George Jennings & Beatriz Cabrera; title: The Fight Outside the Ring : Female Boxing Officials in Trinidad and Tobago / Roy McCree; title: Mexican Female Warrior : The Case of Marisela Ugalde, the Founder of Xilam / George Jennings; title: Women Fighters as Agents of Change : A Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Case Study from Finland / Anna Kavoura, Stiliani Chroni, Marja Kokkonen & Tatiana V. Ryba; title: Beautifully Violent : The Gender Dynamic of Scottish Karate / Chloe Maclean; title: Mediating Factors in Martial Arts Practice : A Specific Case of Young Girls / Jikkemien Vertonghen, Hebe Schaillée, Marc Theeboom & Paul De Knop; title: Outlaw Emotions: Gender, Emotion, and Transformation in Women's Self-Defence Training / Jocelyn Hollander; title: Resisting the Hegemonic Gender Order? : The Accounts of Female Boxers in South Korea  / Yun Jung Kim, Sun Yong Kwon & Jung Woo Lee; title: Reinventing the Body-Self : Intense, Gendered and Heightened Sensorial Experiences of Women's Boxing Embodiment / Helen Owton; title: I'm not the Type of Person who does Yoga : Women, Hard Martial Arts and the Quest for Exciting Significance / Mark Mierzwinski & Catherine Phipps; title: Ambivalent Lives, Fighting Bodies : Women and Combat Sports in Brazil / Jorge Knijnik & Marco Antônio de Carvalho Ferretti; title: UnBoliviable Bouts : Gender and Essentialisation of Bolivia's Cholitas Luchadoras / Nell Haynes.