Lacing Up the Gloves
@article{Gammel2012LacingUT, title={Lacing Up the Gloves}, author={Irene Gammel}, journal={Cultural and Social History}, year={2012}, volume={9}, pages={369 - 390} }
ABSTRACT This article explores women's early twentieth-century engagement with boxing as a means of expressing the fragmentations and contradictions of modern life. Equally drawn to and repelled by the visceral agonism of the sport, female artists and writers of the First World War and post-war era appropriated the boxer's virile body in written and visual autobiographies, effectively breaching male territory and anticipating contemporary notions of female autonomy and self-realization. Whether…
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