Global Perspectives on Women in Combat Sports: Women Warriors around the World

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Approaching the Gendered Phenomenon of ‘Women Warriors’....Pages 1-21
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Moral Guardians, Miniskirts and Nicola Adams: The Changing Media Discourse on Women’s Boxing....Pages 25-40
The Boxers of Kabul: Women, Boxing and Islam....Pages 41-56
‘Chicks Fighting in a Cage’: A Philosophical Critique of Gender Constructions in the Ultimate Fighting Championship....Pages 57-72
‘Beauty and Strength’: Defining the Female Body in The Ultimate Fighter Season 20 Promotional Campaign....Pages 73-85
Front Matter....Pages 87-87
Gender Inequality in Olympic Boxing: Exploring Structuration through Online Resistance against Weight Category Restrictions....Pages 89-103
The Fight outside the Ring: Female Boxing Officials in Trinidad and Tobago....Pages 104-118
Mexican Female Warrior: The Case of Marisela Ugalde, the Founder of Xilam....Pages 119-134
Women Fighters as Agents of Change: A Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Case Study from Finland ....Pages 135-152
Front Matter....Pages 153-153
Beautifully Violent: The Gender Dynamic of Scottish Karate....Pages 155-171
Mediating Factors in Martial Arts Practice: A Specific Case on Young Girls....Pages 172-186
Outlaw Emotions: Gender, Emotion and Transformation in Women’s Self-Defence Training....Pages 187-203
Resisting the Hegemonic Gender Order? The Accounts of Female Boxers in South Korea....Pages 204-218
Front Matter....Pages 219-219
Reinventing the Body-Self: Intense, Gendered and Heightened Sensorial Experiences of Women’s Boxing Embodiment....Pages 221-236
‘I’m Not the Type of Person Who Does Yoga’: Women, ‘Hard’ Martial Arts and the Quest for Exciting Significance....Pages 237-252
Ambivalent Lives, Fighting Bodies: Women and Combat Sports in Brazil....Pages 253-266
UnBoliviable Bouts: Gender and Essentialisation of Bolivia’s Cholitas Luchadoras....Pages 267-283
Back Matter....Pages 284-322