Titlebook: Global Perspectives on Women in Combat Sports; Women Warriors aroun Alex Channon,Christopher R. Matthews Book 2015 The Editor(s) (if applic

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Gender Inequality in Olympic Boxing: Exploring Structuration through Online Resistance against Weighglobe, the narratives of working-class, heroic manliness which were so neatly embedded within the ‘manly art’ resulted in the stories of notable women pugilists, such as bare-knuckle fighter Elizabeth Wilkinson being largely removed from history (Thrasher, 2012).

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Resisting the Hegemonic Gender Order? The Accounts of Female Boxers in South Koreaul step forward to materialising gender equity in sport. Such a development can be seen as a reflection of the growing number of female boxers globally and, at the same time, as an indication of the increasing significance of women’s boxing as an institutionally legitimated sporting activity (Heiskanen, 2012; Woodward, 2013).

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30288-1e. In 2012, the UFC signed its first ever female fighter, ‘Rowdy’ Ronda Rousey. To emphasise how gender is constructed, and the tension surrounding women fighters in the UFC, a controversial media report published after Rousey’s first headlining fight helps to set the stage for this chapter:

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Manfred Wick,Wulf Pinggera,Paul Lehmann high windows. The women look nervous: many have their arms crossed or held protectively around their bodies; others stand on one leg, making themselves smaller. There is occasional quiet talking, punctuated by long moments of anxious silence.