Global Perspectives on Women in Combat Sports

Global Perspectives on Women in Combat Sports

Women Warriors around the World

Channon, Alex; Matthews, Christopher R.

Palgrave Macmillan

08/2015

322

Dura

Inglês

9781137439352

15 a 20 dias

5268

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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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Boxing;Combat Sports;Gender;Martial Arts;Mixed Martial Arts;Sociology of Sport;Sport and Gender;Sports Studies;Women's Sport;gender;media;sociology of sport;sports;women