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Global Perspectives on Women in Combat Sports

Women Warriors around the World

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  • © 2015

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Editors:
  1. Alex Channon

    1. University of Greenwich, UK

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  2. Christopher R. Matthews

    1. University of Brighton, UK

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Part of the book series: Global Culture and Sport Series (GCS)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  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

  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
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Greenwich, UK

    Alex Channon

  • University of Brighton, UK

    Christopher R. Matthews

About the editors

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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