Martha McCaughey
Autor de Cyberactivism: Online Activism in Theory and Practice
Sobre El Autor
Obras de Martha McCaughey
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1966-10-25
- Género
- female
- Educación
- University of Michigan (BA|Sociology)
University of California (MA|Sociology)
Univeristy of California (Ph.D|Sociology) - Organizaciones
- National Women's Studies Association
Southeastern Women's Studies Association
American Association of University Professors
Miembros
Reseñas
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 6
- Miembros
- 124
- Popularidad
- #161,165
- Valoración
- 3.5
- Reseñas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 22
'Feminists have long read the body as a site of women's victimization-damaged, distorted and destroyed in a culture that claims to worship it. In this surprising study, Martha McCaughey elegantly and passionately demonstrates that women can also fight back, both literally and metaphorically.'-Michael Kimmmel, SUNY, Stony Brook
'Real Knockouts begins where other personal safety books end. A must-read for all women concerned about their own safety-especially if they're in denial.'-Paxton Quigley, author of Armed & Female and Not an Easy Target
'I was once a fightened femnist.' So begins Martha McCaughey's odyssey into the dynamic world of women's self-defense, a culture that transforms the many women involved with it. Unprecedented numbers of American women are today learning how to knock out, maim, even kill men who assault them. From beind the scenes at 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 feminity 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.
Martha McCaughey is Asisant Professor of Women's Studies in the Center for INterdisciplinary Studies at Virginia Tech.
Contents
All illustrations appear as a group after page 110
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction: The challenge of the self-defense movement
Balls versus ovaries: Women's 'Virtue' in historical perspective
Getting mean: On the scene in self-defense class
The fighting spirit: Self-defense as counterdiscourse
Changing our minds about our bodies: What can feminism learn from self-defense?
Physical feminism: Implications for feminist activism
Appendix: Conceiving the kick of self-defense: Methods of investigation
Notes
References (bibliography)
Index
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