Global Perspectives on Women in Combat Sports

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Approaching the Gendered Phenomenon of ‘Women Warriors’

   1. Approaching the Gendered Phenomenon of ‘Women Warriors’

      • Alex Channon, Christopher R. Matthews

      Pages 1-21

3. Discursive Constructions and Mediated Representations of Women in Combat Sports

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. Moral Guardians, Miniskirts and Nicola Adams: The Changing Media Discourse on Women’s Boxing

      • Amy Godoy-Pressland

      Pages 25-40

   3. The Boxers of Kabul: Women, Boxing and Islam

      • Hillary Kipnis, Jayne Caudwell

      Pages 41-56

   4. ‘Chicks Fighting in a Cage’: A Philosophical Critique of Gender Constructions in the Ultimate Fighting Championship

      • Charlene Weaving

      Pages 57-72

   5. ‘Beauty and Strength’: Defining the Female Body in The Ultimate Fighter Season 20 Promotional Campaign

      • L. A. Jennings

      Pages 73-85

4. Institutional Structures and Actors in Women’s Combat Sports

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87

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   2. Gender Inequality in Olympic Boxing: Exploring Structuration through Online Resistance against Weight Category Restrictions

      • George Jennings, Beatriz Cabrera Velázquez

      Pages 89-103

   3. The Fight outside the Ring: Female Boxing Officials in Trinidad and Tobago

      • Roy McCree

      Pages 104-118

   4. Mexican Female Warrior: The Case of Marisela Ugalde, the Founder of Xilam

      • George Jennings

      Pages 119-134

   5. Women Fighters as Agents of Change: A Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Case Study from Finland

      • Anna Kavoura, Stiliani ‘Ani’ Chroni, Marja Kokkonen, Tatiana V. Ryba

      Pages 135-152

5. Recreational Practice and Self-Defence

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153

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   2. Beautifully Violent: The Gender Dynamic of Scottish Karate

      • Chloe Maclean

      Pages 155-171

   3. Mediating Factors in Martial Arts Practice: A Specific Case on Young Girls

      • Jikkemien Vertonghen, Hebe Schaillée, Marc Theeboom, Paul De Knop

      Pages 172-186

   4. Outlaw Emotions: Gender, Emotion and Transformation in Women’s Self-Defence Training

      • Jocelyn A. Hollander

      Pages 187-203

   5. Resisting the Hegemonic Gender Order? The Accounts of Female Boxers in South Korea

      • Yun Jung Kim, Sun Yong Kwon, Jung Woo Lee

      Pages 204-218

6. Competitive and Performative ‘Women Warriors’

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 219-219

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   2. Reinventing the Body-Self: Intense, Gendered and Heightened Sensorial Experiences of Women’s Boxing Embodiment

      • Helen Owton

      Pages 221-236

   3. ‘I’m Not the Type of Person Who Does Yoga’: Women, ‘Hard’ Martial Arts and the Quest for Exciting Significance

      • Mark Mierzwinski, Catherine Phipps

      Pages 237-252

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.

• 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

• University of Greenwich, UK

  Alex Channon

• University of Brighton, UK

  Christopher R. Matthews

Jayne Caudwell, University of Brighton, UK.  Stiliani 'Ani' Chroni, Hedmark University College, Norway Paul De Knop, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium. Marco Antônio Carvalho Ferretti, Santana do Parnaiba, Brazil. Amy Godoy-Pressland, University of East Anglia, UK. Nell Haynes, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile. Jocelyn Hollander, University of Oregon, USA. George Jennings, Universidad YMCA, Mexico. L.A. Jennings, Independent Scholar Anna Kavoura, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Yun Jung Kim, Seoul National University, South Korea Hillary Kipnis, University of Brighton, UK. Jorge Knijnik, University of Western Sydney, Australia.  Marja Kokkonen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Sun Yong Kwon, Seoul National University, South Korea. Jung Woo Lee, University of Edinburgh, UK. Chloe Maclean, University of Edinburgh, UK.  Roy McCree, University of the West Indies, Trinidad Mark Mierzwinski, York St. John University, UK. Dr Helen Owton, De Montfort University, UK. and Open University, UK. Catherine Phipps, University of Greenwich, UK. Tatiana V. Ryba, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Hebe Schaillée, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.  Marc Theeboom, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.  Beatriz Cabrera Velázquez, Universidad YMCA, Mexico Jikkemien Vertonghen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Charlene Weaving, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada.

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