Good with her hands: Women, boxing, and work

Critical Inquiry

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 566-597

  Rotella, Carlo ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34547654896     PISSN: 00931896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/448934     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. See "Town Built on Steel Industry Resigns Itself to End of an Era," New York Times, 19 Nov. 1995, p. A27.
2. Peter T. Kilborn, "A City Prepares for Life after Steel," New York Times, 6 Dec. 1994, p. A12.
3. See William P. Garvey, "Erie-The Anatomy of a City III" (Erie, Pa., 1993), pp. 9-10, 16-18.
4. See John G. Carney, Saga of Erie Sports (Erie, Pa., 1957), pp. 193-215.
5. See Kathryn Marie Dudley, The End of the Line: Lost Jobs, New Lives in Postindustrial America (Chicago, 1994), pp. 59-61, 71-74, 107-108, 126-34. Dudley explores the nuances of her distinction between the cultures of the hands and of the mind in the cited passages, which provide useful background to my discussion of Liz McGonigals place in both cultures.
6. Matt DeForce, quoted in Dave Richards, "Ready and Waiting; McGonigal Will Defend U.S. Title Next Week," Erie Daily Times, 18 May 1998, p. 8C.
7. Women's movement into boxing and the military combat arms has occasioned a good deal of public discussion and press coverage. Their movement into hunting, less prominently publicized, has also been noted. See, for example, James Barron, "A-Huntiπg She Will Go: The Fastest-Growing Group Trooping to the Woods Is Women," New York Times, 26 Nov., 1997, p. B1. Barron notes that women "have become the fastest-growing group among hunters, reviving an industry that was in danger of stagnating as fewer men signed up for hunting licenses." Many men remain ambivalent about the prospect of women saving hunting, though, as one female hunter suggests in observing, '"Anytime women become associated with weapons, it's really problematic.'"
8. See Allen Guttman, Women's Sports: A History (New York, 1991), pp. 74-76, 99-100
9. and Jennifer Hargreaves, "Bruising Peg to Boxerobics: Gendered Boxing-Images and Meanings," in Boxer: An Anthology of Writings on Boxing and Visual Culture, ed. David Chandler et al. (Cambridge, Mass., 1996), p. 125.
10. Jimmy Finn, quoted in Marion Lloyd, "Scores of Knockouts Later, Risks for Women Still a Mystery," AP wire story, 4 May 1997.
11. See John Sugden, Boxing and Society: An International Analysis (New York, 1996), p. 18
12. and Hargreaves, "Bruising Peg to Boxerobics," p. 125.
13. S. Kirson Weinberg and Henry Arond, "The Occupational Culture of the Boxer," American Journal of Sociology 57 (Mar. 1952): 460.
14. Loïc J. D. Wacquant, "The Pugilistic Point of View: How Boxers Think and Feel about Their Trade," Theory and Society 24 (Aug. 1995): 502.
15. I have engaged with this argument at length elsewhere; see Carlo Rotella, "Three Views of the Fistic Summits from College Hill," South Atlantic Quarterly 95 (Spring 1996): esp. 306-20.
16. Wacquant, "The Pugilistic Point of View," p. 519.
17. John Goodman and Pete Hamill, The Times Square Gym (New York, 1996), n.p.
18. John Lahr, "Sinatra's Song," The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 1997, p. 78.
19. A. J. Liebling, introduction, The Sweet Science (New York, 1982), p. 2.
20. Liebling, "A Blow for Austerity," in A Neutral Comer: Boxing Essays, ed. Fred Warner and James Barbour (San Francisco, 1990), p. 118.