Women boxers: Actresses to athletes - the role of vaudeville in early women's boxing in the USA
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Women boxers : Actresses to athletes - the role of vaudeville in early women's boxing in the USA. / Gems, Gerald; Pfister, Gertrud Ursula.
In: International Journal of the History of Sport, Vol. 31, No. 15, 2014, p. 1909-1924.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Women boxers
T2 - Actresses to athletes - the role of vaudeville in early women's boxing in the USA
AU - Gems, Gerald
AU - Pfister, Gertrud Ursula
N1 - CURIS 2014 NEXS 321
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - This article fills a gap in the very limited literature on women's boxing by examining the gendered space in which women engaged in the sport as participants in saloons, vaudeville theatres and the prize ring. In doing so, they challenged the contemporary gender order and disputed the notion of women as the weak sex. Vaudeville provided women with an opportunity to present physical performances that surpassed the restrictions placed on women within the mainstream middle-class society. This article includes biographical sketches of some of the outstanding female boxers of the era by drawing upon new primary sources and embedding the findings within various gender theories.
AB - This article fills a gap in the very limited literature on women's boxing by examining the gendered space in which women engaged in the sport as participants in saloons, vaudeville theatres and the prize ring. In doing so, they challenged the contemporary gender order and disputed the notion of women as the weak sex. Vaudeville provided women with an opportunity to present physical performances that surpassed the restrictions placed on women within the mainstream middle-class society. This article includes biographical sketches of some of the outstanding female boxers of the era by drawing upon new primary sources and embedding the findings within various gender theories.
KW - boxing
KW - gender
KW - USA
KW - vaudeville
KW - women
U2 - 10.1080/09523367.2014.933209
DO - 10.1080/09523367.2014.933209
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:84907860602
VL - 31
SP - 1909
EP - 1924
JO - International Journal of the History of Sport
JF - International Journal of the History of Sport
SN - 0952-3367
IS - 15
ER -
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