A Good Fight: How Indigenous Women Approach Boxing as a Mechanism for Social Change

IF 2.5 3区 教育学 Q2 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM Journal of Sport & Social Issues Pub Date : 2020-05-15 DOI:10.1177/0193723520919817
MacIntosh Ross, Janice Forsyth
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This article examines the experiences of select Indigenous female boxers from Canada and the United States to explore and appreciate the diverse meanings they attach to amateur and professional boxing and to write these athletes into history by constructing short case studies of fighters active from the 1970s through the 2010s. We augment each fighter’s story with context from scholarly and secondary source materials, such as newspapers, to round out each woman’s story and to illustrate the multiple overlapping conditions that shaped their boxing experiences. We embrace the work of van Ingen on the importance of understanding female boxers at the intersection of race and gender. In doing so, our work emphasizes the ideological foundations embedded in narratives, so that each narrative presents a certain point of view that results in real practical effects, whether it be supporting White liberal feminism or Indigenous self-determination. Following van Ingen, this article views all writing, whether by journalists or professional historians, as ideological acts, capable of exalting select athletes while marginalizing others.
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一场精彩的战斗:土著妇女如何将拳击作为社会变革的机制
本文通过对20世纪70年代至21世纪10年代活跃的拳击手的简短案例研究,考察了来自加拿大和美国的土著女拳击手的经历,以探索和欣赏她们赋予业余和职业拳击的不同含义,并将这些运动员写进历史。我们从学术和二手资料(如报纸)中补充每个拳击手的故事,以完善每个女人的故事,并说明塑造她们拳击经历的多重重叠条件。我们接受范英根关于理解女性拳击手在种族和性别交叉点上的重要性的工作。在这样做的过程中,我们的作品强调了嵌入叙事中的意识形态基础,因此每一种叙事都呈现出某种观点,从而产生真正的实际效果,无论是支持白人自由女权主义还是土著自决。遵循van Ingen的观点,本文认为所有的写作,无论是记者还是专业历史学家,都是意识形态的行为,能够提升选定的运动员,同时边缘化其他人。
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期刊介绍: Journal of Sport & Social Issues is an indispensable resource that brings together the latest research, discussion, and analysis on contemporary sport issues such as race, media, gender, economics, drugs, recruiting, injuries, and youth sports. Using an international, interdisciplinary perspective, Journal of Sport & Social Issues examines today"s most pressing and far-reaching questions about sport, including: World Cup soccer, gay experience and sport, social issues in sport management, youth sports, sports subcultures. Always provocative, Journal of Sports and Social Issues presents a lively public discussion of the impact of sport on social issues from many perspectives.
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