Global Perspectives on Women in Combat Sports (eBook)

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.

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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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.