The Fight outside the Ring: Female Boxing Officials in Trinidad and Tobago

McCree, Roy

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“…Mennesson, 2000), studies indicate that women in boxing still experience discrimination because of their gender (Paradis, 2009; Tjønndal, 2016a, 2016b). This applies to athletes (Godoy-Pressland, 2015; Jennings and Cabrera Velazquez, 2015; Kipnis and Caudwell, 2015), as well as female leaders such as coaches, judges and referees (McCree, 2011, 2015; Tjønndal, 2016b). Similar gendered phenomena has also been found in other martial arts and combat sports such as kickboxing, mixed martial arts (MMA) and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (Spencer, 2012; Weaving, 2015).…”

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The gendering of coaching from an athlete perspective: The case of Norwegian boxing

Hovden

Tjønndal

2017

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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Coaching is a male dominated area of sport. Globally, women coaches represent a small minority and only a few women coach male athletes. In Norway it is estimated that only about 19% of all coaches are women. In this article we engage in issues regarding the gendering of coaching from an athlete perspective. The concerns are how meanings of gender mirror the athletes’ perceptions and experiences of coaching practices. The theoretical framework develops our understanding of gender and how leadership ideals and practices are structured by and through gender. The data material consists of qualitative interviews with Norwegian boxers. The analysis demonstrates that male coaches earn the respect of their boxers more easily than female coaches do. Furthermore, female boxers experience a more open and socially supportive coach–athlete relationship with female coaches. The coach–athlete relationship with male coaches is often shaped by paternalism, which particularly seems to represent a challenge for young female athletes. The interviewees describe sound coaching as consisting of leadership forms associated with both masculine and feminine skills.

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Section: Feminist Studies On Coachingmentioning

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The gendering of coaching from an athlete perspective: The case of Norwegian boxing

Hovden

Tjønndal

2017

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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“…With women's boxing recognised as an Olympic event, some national sport federations began paying more attention to and increasing their funding for women's boxing, beginning the work of closing economic distances between male and female boxers in their respective countries (Tjønndal 2016a(Tjønndal , 2016d. However, other countries deny women participation in competitive boxing altogether (McCree, 2015;Tjønndal, 2017).…”

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“…Marginalisation and exclusion of women in elite boxing have emerged as serious international problems, threatening women's democratic right to equal participation in sport (Godoy-Pressland, 2015;McCree, 2015). Given the link between boxing, masculinity, violence and aggression, the idea of women's involvement in elite boxing as fighters has faced strong opposition both institutionally and culturally (Lafferty and MacKay, 2004;Tjønndal, 2016a;Woodward, 2006Woodward, , 2013.…”

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‘I don’t think they realise how good we are’: Innovation, inclusion and exclusion in women’s Olympic boxing

Tjønndal

2017

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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Marginalisation and exclusion of women in elite boxing has emerged as a substantial international problem, threatening women's democratic right to equal participation in sport. Since the London 2012 Olympic Games women's boxing has been an Olympic event. However, only 3 of the 10 weight categories were included in the Olympic programme for women. Today, male boxers compete in 10 out of 10 possible weight categories. While female boxers have gained accessed to a previously closed realm, discrimination, exclusion and unequal treatment of female athletes remains a widespread problem in international elite boxing. This article explores how the introduction of women's boxing into the Olympic Games involves practices of inclusion and exclusion in elite boxing. In particular, this analysis focuses on the following two research questions: (a) how practices of social exclusion and inclusion affect the involvement and engagement of women in boxing; and (b) how, and in what ways, female boxers have experienced recognition and acceptance in elite boxing after the introduction of women's boxing into the Olympic Games. Using a qualitative approach including document analysis of official press releases from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Boxing Association (AIBA), as well as interviews with athletes and coaches, this study reveals that although women's boxing has gained access to the Olympics, the structural and cultural changes that comprise the social inclusion of women in boxing are yet to be implemented.

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“…Aside from the continuation of narratives reifying the naturalisation of masculinity through combat sports, this effect is also achieved through various ways in which women's growing presence within them remains subordinated to men's in several respects. These include challenges to the authority of female officials; the relative lack of female (head) coaches in combat sports; the continuing disparity between professional male and female athletes' financial rewards, or access to training facilities; and the sexualisation of female combat athletes in the media (see Channon et al, 2018;Jennings, 2015;Kavoura et al, 2015;McCree, 2015). Each of these phenomena serve as not-sosubtle reminders that men remain central, in both symbolic and tangible ways, to the social world of combat sports.…”

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The ‘male preserve’ thesis, sporting culture, and men’s power

Matthews

Channon²

2019

Routledge International Handbook of Masculinity Studies

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Introduction: Studying sport and gender Since the mid-nineteenth century, when the modern Westernised form of competition sport took shape, there has been a shifting yet robustly gendered structure to the experience of playing, consuming, managing, teaching and marketing sport. In this regard, save for a number of important examples, sports in various forms were created by men, for men (and boys). In light of this, critical studies of men, masculinity and sport culture have emerged as a major area of research in the sociology of sport (e.g.

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The Fight outside the Ring: Female Boxing Officials in Trinidad and Tobago

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The gendering of coaching from an athlete perspective: The case of Norwegian boxing

The gendering of coaching from an athlete perspective: The case of Norwegian boxing

‘I don’t think they realise how good we are’: Innovation, inclusion and exclusion in women’s Olympic boxing

The ‘male preserve’ thesis, sporting culture, and men’s power

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