Boxing, Narrative and Culture

Introduction

PART 1

Serious Athletes and the Politics of Community

1 Increasing Visibility and the (Re)presentation of Female Boxers in Print Media

PAIGE SCHNEIDER

2 Influencer Boxing: Authenticity and the Quest for Redemption

P. SOLOMON LENNOX

3 Ducking and Diving: Why Boxing Clubs Hit the Targets Other Sports Cannot Reach in Deprived Communities

DAVID BARRETT, LEE EDMONDSON, ROBBIE MILLAR, AND P. SOLOMON LENNOX

4 Narratives of Struggle: Boxing, Gender, and Community

SUPRIYA CHAUDHURI

5 Practicing Otherwise: Feminist Boxing Challenges Mainstream Narratives of Combat Sports

ELISA VIRGILI

6 Reflections on the Empowerment of Women in Boxing from Athletes and Coaches in Norway Female Box

ANNE TJONNDAL

PART 2

(De)constructing Self, to Be Somebody

7 Trans Boxing: A Boxing Club, an Art Project

NOLAN HANSON AND ZAC EASTERLING

8 Katie Taylor: Complicating a Boxing Identity

EMMA CALOW

9 Letting Down the Team? Individualism, Selfishness, and Kinship in Women's Boxing

SARAH CREWS

10 Alfonso 'Mosquito' Zvenyika and the Dominant Narratives on Boxing in Post-Colonial Zimbabwe

MANASE KUDZAI CHIWESHE AND GERALD DANDAH

11 Political Symbolism of Mary Kom from the Manipuri

Autobiography to the Indian Blockbuster

MYRIAM MELLOULI

12 Turn the Volume Up! Boxing Hearts and Beats

KRISTINA ORSZAGHOVA

13 Gender Transgression in the (Trans)National Domain: Laura Serrano and Women's Boxing in Mexico

MARJOLEIN VAN BAVEL

Afterword: Boxing and Cultural Value

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