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'McCaughey's story allows women to revel in the incorrect pleasures of female aggressivity and the ability to thwart violence with the credible thrreat of violence. The book thus offers a timely, bold, and original rethinking of the role of violence in feminism and opopular culture. Real Knockouts pulls no punches.'-Constance Penley, University of California, Santa Barbara

'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
About the author
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AikiBib | May 29, 2022 |
I read this book for a paper I have to write in my Gender, Violence, & Poverty class. While discussing an interesting topic, I found the book a little tedious (which is surprising considering it's only 140 pages!) But to me, the book seemed to reiterate the same points over and over. Ultimately though, I think people should read the book in order to think about how evolutionary theory can be used in the same way as religious fundamentalism has been used in order to prop up the power of white men while pushing down the already downtrodden. I really wish that McCaughey would have spent much more time discussing her point in her final paragraph where she pushes for the rejection of caveman masculinity and the adoption of a new manhood called "Homo textual." It sounded like a fascinating possibility and I would have loved to have seen what more she could have done with it (its implementation, etc) than the one paragraph she wrote.… (más)
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melancholycat | Apr 11, 2009 |

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