Fighting Sports, Gender, and the Commodification of Violence - Heavy Bag Heroines

This book offers a glimpse into the cultural terrain of women's boxing as it manifests in everyday gyms for novice boxers. Taking an ethnographic approach, Collins examines broader understandings of gender, violence, self-defense, commodification, and health and fitness from the point of view of women who engage the sport.

List of contents

Chapter One: Finding Boxing in a Strip-Mall
Chapter Two: From Amazonians to Cardio Classes: Women, Consumerism, and Combat
Sports
Chapter Three: Commodifying and the Woman Boxer: Popular Culture, Media, and the
Sexualized Fighter
Chapter Four: Fighting Tough...but Not Too Tough
Chapter Five: There are Only Three Rules of Fight Club, "No Spectators, No Social Media
and No Boob Shots!"
Chapter Six: Sparring Like Men? Gender Maneuvering and the Emotional Work of Getting in
the Ring
Chapter Seven: Violence, Safety, and Self-defense: Unpacking the Narrative that Boxing is
Self-Defense
Chapter Eight: The Female Fight: Sport and the spectacle

About the author

Victoria E. Collins is associate professor and graduate program coordinator in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University.

Product details

• Authors: Victoria E. Collins, Collins Victoria E.
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9781793600639
• ISBN: 978-1-79360-063-9
• No. of pages: 214
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SPORTS & RECREATION / Boxing, Boxing, Gender studies, gender groups, Crime & criminology