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Global perspectives on women in combat sports : women warriors around the world / edited by Alex Channon, University of Greenwich, UK, Christopher R. Matthews, University of Brighton, UK.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Global culture and sportPublisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: xvi, 322 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1137439351
  • 9781137439352
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 796.8 23
LOC classification:
  • GV1101 .G56 2015
Contents:
Approaching the Gendered Phenomenon of Women Warriors / Alex Channon & Christopher R Matthews -- Moral Guardians, Mini-Skirts and Nicola Adams : The Changing Media Discourse of Women's Boxing / Amy Godoy-Pressland -- The Boxers of Kabul : Women, Boxing and Islam / Hillary Kipnis & Jayne Caudwell -- Chicks Fighting in a Cage : A Philosophical Critique of Gender Constructions in the Ultimate Fighting Championship / Charlene Weaving -- Beauty and Strength : Defining the Female Body in The Ultimate Fighter Season 20 Promotional Campaign / LA Jennings -- Gender Inequality in Olympic Boxing : Exploring Structuration through Online Resistance Against Weight Category Restrictions / George Jennings & Beatriz Cabrera -- The Fight Outside the Ring : Female Boxing Officials in Trinidad and Tobago / Roy McCree -- Mexican Female Warrior : The Case of Marisela Ugalde, the Founder of Xilam / George Jennings -- Women Fighters as Agents of Change : A Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Case Study from Finland / Anna Kavoura, Stiliani Chroni, Marja Kokkonen & Tatiana V. Ryba -- Beautifully Violent : The Gender Dynamic of Scottish Karate / Chloe Maclean -- Mediating Factors in Martial Arts Practice : A Specific Case of Young Girls / Jikkemien Vertonghen, Hebe Schaillée, Marc Theeboom & Paul De Knop -- Outlaw Emotions: Gender, Emotion, and Transformation in Women's Self-Defence Training / Jocelyn Hollander -- Resisting the Hegemonic Gender Order? : The Accounts of Female Boxers in South Korea / Yun Jung Kim, Sun Yong Kwon & Jung Woo Lee -- Reinventing the Body-Self : Intense, Gendered and Heightened Sensorial Experiences of Women's Boxing Embodiment / Helen Owton -- I'm not the Type of Person who does Yoga : Women, Hard Martial Arts and the Quest for Exciting Significance / Mark Mierzwinski & Catherine Phipps -- Ambivalent Lives, Fighting Bodies : Women and Combat Sports in Brazil / Jorge Knijnik & Marco Antônio de Carvalho Ferretti -- UnBoliviable Bouts : Gender and Essentialisation of Bolivia's Cholitas Luchadoras / Nell Haynes.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Approaching the Gendered Phenomenon of Women Warriors / Alex Channon & Christopher R Matthews -- Moral Guardians, Mini-Skirts and Nicola Adams : The Changing Media Discourse of Women's Boxing / Amy Godoy-Pressland -- The Boxers of Kabul : Women, Boxing and Islam / Hillary Kipnis & Jayne Caudwell -- Chicks Fighting in a Cage : A Philosophical Critique of Gender Constructions in the Ultimate Fighting Championship / Charlene Weaving -- Beauty and Strength : Defining the Female Body in The Ultimate Fighter Season 20 Promotional Campaign / LA Jennings -- Gender Inequality in Olympic Boxing : Exploring Structuration through Online Resistance Against Weight Category Restrictions / George Jennings & Beatriz Cabrera -- The Fight Outside the Ring : Female Boxing Officials in Trinidad and Tobago / Roy McCree -- Mexican Female Warrior : The Case of Marisela Ugalde, the Founder of Xilam / George Jennings -- Women Fighters as Agents of Change : A Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Case Study from Finland / Anna Kavoura, Stiliani Chroni, Marja Kokkonen & Tatiana V. Ryba -- Beautifully Violent : The Gender Dynamic of Scottish Karate / Chloe Maclean -- Mediating Factors in Martial Arts Practice : A Specific Case of Young Girls / Jikkemien Vertonghen, Hebe Schaillée, Marc Theeboom & Paul De Knop -- Outlaw Emotions: Gender, Emotion, and Transformation in Women's Self-Defence Training / Jocelyn Hollander -- Resisting the Hegemonic Gender Order? : The Accounts of Female Boxers in South Korea / Yun Jung Kim, Sun Yong Kwon & Jung Woo Lee -- Reinventing the Body-Self : Intense, Gendered and Heightened Sensorial Experiences of Women's Boxing Embodiment / Helen Owton -- I'm not the Type of Person who does Yoga : Women, Hard Martial Arts and the Quest for Exciting Significance / Mark Mierzwinski & Catherine Phipps -- Ambivalent Lives, Fighting Bodies : Women and Combat Sports in Brazil / Jorge Knijnik & Marco Antônio de Carvalho Ferretti -- UnBoliviable Bouts : Gender and Essentialisation of Bolivia's Cholitas Luchadoras / Nell Haynes.

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