Unprecedented numbers of American women are today learning how to knock out, maim, even kill men who assault them. From behind the scenes of gun ranges, martial arts dojos, fitness centers offering "Cardio Combat," and in padded attacker courses like "Model Mugging," Real Knockou...

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Main Author:	McCaughey, Martha (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York [u.a.] New York Univ. Press 1997
Subjects:	Autodéfense féminine - Aspect social Femmes, Crimes contre les - Prévention Théorie féministe Violence envers les femmes - Prévention Feminismus Frau Gesellschaft Feminist theory Self-defense for women > Social aspects Women > Crimes against > Prevention Selbstverteidigung
Online Access:	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:	Unprecedented numbers of American women are today learning how to knock out, maim, even kill men who assault them. From behind the scenes of 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 a woman's balled fist, McCaughey found self-defense culture to embody, literally, a new kind of feminism, one that will change forever the way we think of gender politics, the female body, and feminism itself.
Physical Description:	XVI, 270 S. Ill.
ISBN:	0814755127