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Pretty Strong Women: Ingenious Agency, Pink Gloves and Muay Thai
Sociology of Sport Journal ( IF 1.7 ) Pub Date : 2019-09-01 , DOI: 10.1123/ssj.2018-0145
Sharyn G. Davies 1 , Antje Deckert 1
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Women now compete in the Ultimate Fighting Championship for which Muay Thai is a feeder discipline. It is timely to analyze how the tools of this pugilist trade, women’s bodies, are lived and discursively positioned. We explore how bodily attributes (strength and beauty) are positioned vis-a-vis women fighters by drawing on 17 interviews with women Muay Thai fighters. We argue while women are in control of their bodies and proud of their strength, normative narratives of fighting being unfeminine must be combatted. Theoretically, we expand discussion of gender and the body by deploying the ‘pretty imperative’ to examine how women’s quotidian practices open space for other women fighters and by engaging the notion of ingenious agency to reveal women’s strategic efforts for inclusion and acceptance

中文翻译:

相当坚强的女人:巧妙的代理,粉红手套和泰拳

女子现在参加终极格斗锦标赛,泰拳是其中一项。分析这种拳击手行业的工具,女性身体,是如何生活和话语定位的,是时候了。我们通过对女性泰拳选手的 17 次采访,探索身体属性(力量和美感)如何相对于女性拳击手进行定位。我们认为,虽然女性可以控制自己的身体并为自己的力量感到自豪,但必须反对战斗缺乏女性气质的规范叙述。从理论上讲,我们通过部署“非常必要”来研究女性日常如何为其他女性战士开放空间,并通过采用巧妙的机构概念来揭示女性为包容和接受所做的战略努力,从而扩大了对性别和身体的讨论
更新日期:2019-09-01
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