(OCT 21) On June 21-22,
2013, at the Art Bar, Gladstone Hotel, in Toronto, Ontario,
Canada, Hosted by Brock University, the legacy of women’s
boxing, including women fighting for financial gain, traces back
to the first half of the 18th century. Yet women’s amateur
boxing only became legalized in many parts of the Americas in
the late 1970's briefly and then did not reappear until the
early 1990s. There are now over 120 international boxing
federations with registered female competitors, and the debut of
women’s boxing at the London Olympics placed it on an
international stage.
This two-day symposium seeks to explore the diverse ways women
have participated in amateur and professional boxing. The
purpose will be to investigate women’s involvement in boxing in
its broadest sense, from historical, ethnographic, cultural, and
artistic perspectives. This cross-genre approach hopes to take
into account the multiple, often intersecting, aspects of this
exploitative and dysfunctional, yet equally compelling and
beautiful, sport.
“Fighting Women” encourages presentations from diverse fields of
study, including physical cultural studies, women and gender
studies, history, media and communications, film studies,
sociology, visual artists, and filmmakers, among others. Topics
may include, but are certainly not limited to:
Histories of Fighting Women
Ethnographies and Oral Histories
Cultural Representations
Theoretical Discussions
Identity Formation
Visual/Artistic Expressions
New Media and Social Networks
Embodiment and Agency
The Program Committee consists of:
Dr. Cathy van Ingen, Brock University, Canada.
Dr. Benita Heiskanen, Turku Institute for Advanced Studies,
Finland.
Dr. Anju Reejhsinghani, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point,
U.S.A.
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