She's a Knockout!
A History of Women in Fighting Sports
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نقد و بررسی
November 15, 2014
Some of us can remember when the general public's only awareness of women fighting came through watching grainy images of the flamboyantly villainous Fabulous Moolah flickering across black-and-white TV screens. Today, both men's and women's mixed martial arts are in the mainstream, and women such as media darling Ronda Rousey can earn up to $250,000 per bout. Likewise, women's freestyle wrestling debuted as an Olympic sport in 2004 and was joined by boxing in 2012. Here Jennings, a scholar specializing in feminist issues, popular culture, and American history, and a fighter in her own right, shows that women boxers and grapplers have actually had a long past, as she traces the evolution of the many varieties of women's fighting from the 1700s to the present. Along the way, the author also examines women's cultural roles over the years and their participation in sports of all kinds. VERDICT This might be better received as a popular, instead of a scholarly, history, but it undoubtedly adds valuable insights into women's role in sports and society.--Jim Burns, formerly with Jacksonville P.L., FL
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