Research Around Women's Boxing

The Bleeding Space TEDX talk - Dr Sarah Crews

Further Reading:

Not Without a Fight: Ten Steps to Becoming Your Own Champion - Ramla Ali

Boxing, Narrative and Culture - (eds.) Sarah Crews and Solomon Lennox

Fighting Sports, Gender and the Commodification of Violence - Victoria E. Collins

Boxing and Performance - Solomon Lennox and Sarah Crews

The Sweetest Thing: A Boxer's Memoir - Mischa Merz

The Boxer's Heart - Kate Sekules

A History of Women's Boxing - Malissa Smith

The Promise of Women's Boxing: A Momentous New Era for the Sweet Science - Malissa Smith

Come Out Swinging: The Changing World of Boxing in Gleason's Gym - Lucia Trimbur

If you have academic access, you may be interested in the following papers:

Tjønndal, A. (2019). ‘I don’t think they realise how good we are’: Innovation, inclusion and exclusion in women’s Olympic boxing. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 54(2), 131-150. https://doi.org/10.1177/1012690217715642

Fitzgerald, H., Stride, A., & Drury, S. (2022). Throwing your hat in the ring: Women volunteers in boxing. Sport in Society, 25(10), 1831–1846. https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2021.1878148

Crews, S. K. (2023). Habits of Belonging in and through Boxing. Performance Research, 28(6), 115–123. https://doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2023.2334653

Crews, S., & Lennox, P. S. (2020). Boxing, Bourdieu and Butler: repetitions of change. Studies in Theatre and Performance, 40(2), 145–161. https://doi.org/10.1080/14682761.2019.1654253

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