Global perspectives on women in combat sports : women warriors around the world

Author(s)

• Channon, Alex
• Matthews, Christopher R.

Bibliographic Information

Global perspectives on women in combat sports : women warriors around the world

edited by Alex Channon, Christopher R. Matthews

（Global culture and sport / series editors Stephen Wagg and David Andrews）

Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

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

• 1. Approaching The Gendered Phenomenon Of Women Warriors
• Alex Channon And Christopher R Matthews PART I: DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTIONS AND MEDIATED REPRESENTATIONS OF WOMEN IN COMBAT SPORTS 2. Moral Guardians, Mini-Skirts And Nicola Adams: The Changing Media Discourse Of Women's Boxing
• Amy Godoy-Pressland 3. The Boxers Of Kabul: Women, Boxing And Islam
• Hillary Kipnis And Jayne Caudwell 4. Chicks Fighting In A Cage: A Philosophical Critique Of Gender Constructions In The Ultimate Fighting Championship
• Charlene Weaving 5. 'Beauty And Strength': Defining The Female Body In The Ultimate Fighter Season 20 Promotional Campaign
• LA Jennings PART II: INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURES AND ACTORS IN WOMEN'S COMBAT SPORTS 6. Gender Inequality In Olympic Boxing: Exploring Structuration Through Online Resistance Against Weight Category Restrictions
• George Jennings And Beatriz Cabrera 7. The Fight Outside The Ring: Female Boxing Officials In Trinidad And Tobago
• Roy Mccree 8. Mexican Female Warrior: The Case Of Marisela Ugalde, The Founder Of Xilam
• George Jennings 9. Women Fighters As Agents Of Change: A Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Case Study From Finland
• Anna Kavoura, Stiliani Chroni, Marja Kokkonen And Tatiana V. Ryba PART III: RECREATIONAL PRACTICE AND SELF-DEFENCE 10. Beautifully Violent: The Gender Dynamic Of Scottish Karate
• Chloe Maclean 11. Mediating Factors In Martial Arts Practice: A Specific Case Of Young Girls
• Jikkemien Vertonghen, Hebe Schaillee, Marc Theeboom And Paul De Knop 12. Outlaw Emotions: Gender, Emotion, And Transformation In Women's Self-Defence Training
• Jocelyn Hollander 13. Resisting The Hegemonic Gender Order? The Accounts Of Female Boxers In South Korea
• Yun Jung Kim, Sun Yong Kwon And Jung Woo Lee PART IV: COMPETITIVE AND PERFORMATIVE 'WOMEN WARRIORS' 14. Reinventing The Body-Self: Intense, Gendered And Heightened Sensorial Experiences Of Women's Boxing Embodiment
• Helen Owton 15. 'I'm Not The Type Of Person Who Does Yoga': Women, 'Hard' Martial Arts And The Quest For Exciting Significance
• Mark Mierzwinski And Catherine Phipps 16. Ambivalent Lives, Fighting Bodies: Women And Combat Sports In Brazil Jorge Knijnik And Marco Antonio De Carvalho Ferretti 17. Unboliviable Bouts: Gender And Essentialisation Of Bolivia's Cholitas Luchadoras
• Nell Haynes

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• NCID: BB2003137X
• ISBN:
  • 9781137439352
• LCCN: 2015014628
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Basingstoke
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 322 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : GV1101
  • DC23 : 796.8
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Women martial artists -- Cross-cultural studies
  • LCSH : Women boxers -- Cross-cultural studies
  • LCSH : Martial arts -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies
  • LCSH : Boxing -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA88321421