Without Apology: Girls, Women and the Desire to Fight

by Leah Cohen

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'Any girl who boxes,' writes Leah Hager Cohen, 'challenges, wittingly or not, the idea of what it means to be a girl in our culture. Through the prism of what she does with her fists, she brings a fiercely contrarian light to our most fundamental notions about femininity and power and appetite and shame and desire.' Originally intending simply to research the subject, Leah met four adolescent girls from a Boston housing project who were training under a female coach at the Somerville Boxing Club. In the course of a year, she grew close to them, learning about their...Read more
  • ISBN10 0297850644
  • ISBN13 9780297850649
  • Publish Date 11 August 2005
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 5 December 2008
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Orion Publishing Co
  • Imprint Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 256
  • Language English