Global perspectives on women in combat sports : women warriors around the world /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampshire ; New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2015.
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| Series: | Global culture and sport.
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Table of 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.