Real Knockouts
The Physical Feminism of Women's Self-Defense
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11097820 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Phyllis L Baker (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 355 |
| Publication date | 1998-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Real Knockouts: The Physical Feminism of Women's Self-Defense, Martha Mccaughey, 2020 |
| Venue | Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-3061 • E-ISSN: 1939-8638 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2655472 |
| OpenAlex | W2070072962 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
An examination of women's self-defense culture and its relationship to feminism. I was once a frightened feminist. So begins Martha McCaughey's odyssey into the dynamic world of women's self- defense, a culture which transforms women involved with it and which has equally profound implications for feminist theory and activism. Unprecedented numbers of American women are learning how to knock out, maim, even kill men who assault them. Sales of mace and pepper spray have skyrocketed. Some 14 million women own handguns. From behind the scenes at gun ranges, martial arts dojos, fitness centers offering Cardio Combat, and in padded attacker courses like Model Mugging, Real Knockouts demonstrates how self-defense trains women out of the femininity that makes them easy targets for men's abuse. And yet much feminist thought, like the broader American culture, seems deeply ambivalent about women's embrace of violence, even in self-defense. Investigating the connection between feminist theory and women physically fighting back, McCaughey found self-defense culture to embody, literally, a new brand of feminism
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Changing the Hidden Curriculum of Campus Rape Prevention and Education
Empowerment Self-Defense Intervention Outcomes
The Roots of Resistance to Women's Self-Defense
Hard' Women and 'Soft' Women
The Nordic female fighter
Women's Participation in Tackle Football
Gender on the ropes
Introduction
Vulnerability and Dangerousness
The Fighting Spirit
When Safety Becomes a Duty
From Civility to Self-Defense
Unraveling the fear of victimization among college women
A 10-Year Update of “Review and Critique of Empirical Studies of Rape Avoidance”
Rousseur fatale dans La peau blanche de Joël Champetier
Las mujeres violentas de la posmodernidad cinematográfica
Public/Private language aggression against women
De-authorizing rape narrators
Identity Politics, Consciousness-Raising, and Visibility Politics
The Gender Gap in Fear
It Matters How You Move
What Real Empowerment Looks Like
Talking about sexual assault
Religion made me free
The Invention of the Athletic Body
Fighting back
(Hip) Throwing Like a Girl
Towards the “Undoing” of Gender in Mixed-Sex Martial Arts and Combat Sports
Pink Gloves Still Give Black Eyes
Fighting Gender Stereotypes
Navigation of Training and Advancement in Karate and Krav Maga
Agency on the Move
Rhythmic Gymnastics vs. Boxing
The sociology of U.S. gun culture
The Equalizer? Crime, Vulnerability, and Gender in Pro-Gun Discourse
Action-Oriented Responses to Sexual Harassment in Egypt
Dialectical Mediation
Safetytipsforladies
Risky Assignments
Techno-physical feminism
It hurts so it is real
Secular-religious self-improvement
Victim Vaginas
Sexual Violence Prevention and Technologies of Gender among Heavy‐Drinking College Women
The Body in Revolt
A Conscious and Inclusive Family Studies
Everyday self-defence
Connecting the gendered door
A red card for women
Vulnerable Warriors
Thinking Woman-to-Woman Rape
Women’s sex-toy parties
Why Do Women Take Self-Defense Classes
The Group Dynamics of Women’s Self-Defense Training
Self-Defense/Assertiveness Training, Women’s Victimization History, and Psychological Characteristics
Back Off Buddy, This Is My Body, Not Yours”
Self-Defense or Undermining the Self? Exploring the Possibilities and Limitations of a Novel Anti-Rape Technology
Exploring the Intersection of Race and Gender in Self-Defense Training
From Gun Politics to Self-Defense Politics
Does Self-Defense Training Prevent Sexual Violence Against Women
Women’s Situational Coping With Acquaintance Sexual Assault
Self-Defense Among Women With Disabilities
Challenging Despair
Empowering Self-Defense Training
Subjects of Desire
Bruce Lee and the Anti-imperialism of Kung Fu
Transgression as a Postfeminist Masquerade
Empowered victims? Women’s contradictory positions in the discourse of violence prevention
The importance of self-defense training for sexual violence prevention
The IUD in Me
Getting Physical
It Can Happen to You”
Constructing Victims
Undoing Gender or Overdoing Gender? Women MMA Athletes’ Intimate Partnering and the Relational Maintenance of Femininity
The Rules of Engagement
I Am My Body
Kicking like a Boy
Female gun owners
Correlates of Postassault Self-Defense/Assertiveness Training Participation for Sexual Assault Survivors
Alcohol and Sexual Aggression in a National Sample of College Men
Excuse Me, Sir, but Are You a Child Molestor
Theorizing Gender in Intimate Partner Violence Research
Philosophical and Political Issues in Research on Women’s Violence and Aggression
It's breaking quite big social taboos’ violence against women and girls and self-defense training in Nepal
Competing Discourses for Older Women
Knowing your place and commanding space
It made me feel powerful’
Gender, Media, and Mixed Martial Arts in Poland
Knockout Women
Femininity, Sports, and Feminism
Fighters who Don't Fight
Spinning Fast Without Falling
Women's Experiences of Embodied Identity through Active Leisure
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