TY  - BOOK
AU  - Channon,Alex
AU  - Matthews,Christopher R.
TI  - Global perspectives on women in combat sports: women warriors around the world 
T2  - Global culture and sport series
SN  - 1137439351
AV  - GV1101 .G56 2015
U1  - 796.8 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampshire
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Women martial artists
KW  - Cross-cultural studies
KW  - Women boxers
KW  - Martial arts
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Boxing
N1  - 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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