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Global Perspectives on Women in Combat Sports

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    Chapter 1 Approaching the Gendered Phenomenon of ‘Women Warriors’
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    Chapter 2 Moral Guardians, Miniskirts and Nicola Adams: The Changing Media Discourse on Women’s Boxing
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    Chapter 3 The Boxers of Kabul: Women, Boxing and Islam
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    Chapter 4 ‘Chicks Fighting in a Cage’: A Philosophical Critique of Gender Constructions in the Ultimate Fighting Championship
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    Chapter 5 ‘Beauty and Strength’: Defining the Female Body in The Ultimate Fighter Season 20 Promotional Campaign
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    Chapter 6 Gender Inequality in Olympic Boxing: Exploring Structuration through Online Resistance against Weight Category Restrictions
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    Chapter 7 The Fight outside the Ring: Female Boxing Officials in Trinidad and Tobago
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    Chapter 8 Mexican Female Warrior: The Case of Marisela Ugalde, the Founder of Xilam
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    Chapter 9 Women Fighters as Agents of Change: A Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Case Study from Finland
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    Chapter 10 Beautifully Violent: The Gender Dynamic of Scottish Karate
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    Chapter 11 Mediating Factors in Martial Arts Practice: A Specific Case on Young Girls
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    Chapter 12 Outlaw Emotions: Gender, Emotion and Transformation in Women’s Self-Defence Training
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    Chapter 13 Resisting the Hegemonic Gender Order? The Accounts of Female Boxers in South Korea
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    Chapter 14 Reinventing the Body-Self: Intense, Gendered and Heightened Sensorial Experiences of Women’s Boxing Embodiment
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    Chapter 15 ‘I’m Not the Type of Person Who Does Yoga’: Women, ‘Hard’ Martial Arts and the Quest for Exciting Significance
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    Chapter 16 Ambivalent Lives, Fighting Bodies: Women and Combat Sports in Brazil
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    Chapter 17 UnBoliviable Bouts: Gender and Essentialisation of Bolivia’s Cholitas Luchadoras
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Title
Global Perspectives on Women in Combat Sports
Published by
Palgrave Macmillan UK, January 2015
DOI 10.1057/9781137439369
ISBNs
978-1-349-56203-9, 978-1-137-43936-9, 978-1-137-43935-2, 978-1-137-43937-6
Editors

Christopher R. Matthews, Alex Channon

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Country Count As %
Unknown 11 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 1 9%
Student > Master 1 9%
Unknown 9 82%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 1 9%
Engineering 1 9%
Unknown 9 82%