In the Ring: Gender, Spectatorship, and the Body

Chaudhuri, Supriya

doi:10.1080/09523367.2012.714943

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“…However, other countries deny women participation in competitive boxing altogether (McCree, 2015; Tjønndal, 2017). Access to adequate material recourses is also part of Donnelly and Coakley’s (2002) five cornerstones of inclusion and, while women boxers still have less funding and fewer resources than their male counterparts (Chaudhuri, 2012; Kipnis and Caudwell, 2015), the Olympics changed the opportunities for female boxers in many countries (Jennings and Cabrera Velazquez, 2015). British Olympic gold medallist Nicola Adams 11 responded to the news of women’s boxing being introduced into the Olympics in this way: We’ve achieved so much already without having access to funding.…”

Section: Formal Access and Acceptance: The London 2012 Olympic Gamesmentioning

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“…While women’s boxing continued to be a part of the Olympic programme in Rio 2016, female boxers still face lack of equality and inclusion in sponsorships, endorsements and media attention relative to male boxers across cultures (e.g. Chaudhuri, 2012; Kim et al, 2015; Tjønndal and Hovden, 2016). This indicates that women’s material wellbeing, recognition, power and involvement in international elite boxing are still somewhat limited (Bailey, 2005; Jennings and Cabrera Velazquez, 2015).…”

Section: Resources Recognition and Involvement: The Road To Rio 2016mentioning

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‘I don’t think they realise how good we are’: Innovation, inclusion and exclusion in women’s Olympic boxing

Tjønndal

2017

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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Marginalisation and exclusion of women in elite boxing has emerged as a substantial international problem, threatening women's democratic right to equal participation in sport. Since the London 2012 Olympic Games women's boxing has been an Olympic event. However, only 3 of the 10 weight categories were included in the Olympic programme for women. Today, male boxers compete in 10 out of 10 possible weight categories. While female boxers have gained accessed to a previously closed realm, discrimination, exclusion and unequal treatment of female athletes remains a widespread problem in international elite boxing. This article explores how the introduction of women's boxing into the Olympic Games involves practices of inclusion and exclusion in elite boxing. In particular, this analysis focuses on the following two research questions: (a) how practices of social exclusion and inclusion affect the involvement and engagement of women in boxing; and (b) how, and in what ways, female boxers have experienced recognition and acceptance in elite boxing after the introduction of women's boxing into the Olympic Games. Using a qualitative approach including document analysis of official press releases from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Boxing Association (AIBA), as well as interviews with athletes and coaches, this study reveals that although women's boxing has gained access to the Olympics, the structural and cultural changes that comprise the social inclusion of women in boxing are yet to be implemented.

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Section: Formal Access and Acceptance: The London 2012 Olympic Gamesmentioning

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Section: Resources Recognition and Involvement: The Road To Rio 2016mentioning

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‘I don’t think they realise how good we are’: Innovation, inclusion and exclusion in women’s Olympic boxing

Tjønndal

2017

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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“…Even today, of all social activities, sports is the most sharply segregated and regulated by gender'. 34 The 'now' of sport, its excitement, unpredictability, its staccato narratives, and its extension of identity, are possible only for men in this society, creating intolerable tensions between the two main characters. This is embedded in the pacing of the film.…”

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Sport, life, This Sporting Life, and the hypertopia

Ewers

2021

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Sport has classically been regarded as an 'elsewhere', a leisure activity set apart from the serious business of life. Sociological critiques of sport, however, emphasise its importance in transmitting ideology, and its responsiveness to historical change. The question, then, is how does this 'elsewhere' connect to the everyday? The article proposes that the spaces of sport generally function as a hypertopia, which involves a going beyond of the normative, rather than the Foucauldian idea of the heterotopia or utopia, which foreground difference. By analysing Lindsay Anderson's This Sporting Life in terms of the hypertopia, it is possible to rethink sport's connection to hegemonic social orders, and consider the way filmic representations of sport constantly engage with this sense of 'going beyond'.

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“…Supriya Chaudhuri articulates this view in her study of women's sport in India, stating: 'Mary Kom has chosen, through sport, to achieve a measure of freedom and detachment from the political turmoil surrounding her'. 31 Indeed, suspected militants murdered Mary's father-in-law and she discusses wanting revenge in Unbreakable. 32 (iii) Ideal Northeast Indian There are others from the Northeast who have made their mark at the national level such as Agatha Sangma (politics), Binalakshmi Nepram (activism) and Sourabhee Debbarma (singing), yet none of these figures have transcended the political, cultural and racial distance between the Northeast and the rest of India in the same way as Mary Kom has.…”

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‘Is India Racist?’: Murder, Migration and Mary Kom

McDuie‐Ra

2015

South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies

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After the 2012 Olympics, Bronze Medal-winning boxer Mary Kom achieved national celebrity status in India. As a member of the Kom tribe, a Tibeto-Burman community from the Northeast region, she has come to represent a region long considered, and self-identifying, as outside the boundaries of the Indian nation. The same week that Mary Kom returned from London, thirty thousand Northeast migrants fled Indian cities fearing racially-motivated attacks. The socalled 'exodus' provoked rare conversations on racism within India. During this crisis, the figure of Mary Kom was invoked continually to challenge the existence of racism in India and posit paths to better integration in India's cities. These conversations paid little attention to the brutality perpetrated by the Indian state and military in the Northeast itself and the voices that publicised this brutality. Thus, while Mary Kom has come to represent a Northeast that Indians can embrace, figures such as dissident Irom Sharmila represent a Northeast that Indians wish to forget.

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In the Ring: Gender, Spectatorship, and the Body

Cited by 10 publications

References 7 publications

‘I don’t think they realise how good we are’: Innovation, inclusion and exclusion in women’s Olympic boxing

‘I don’t think they realise how good we are’: Innovation, inclusion and exclusion in women’s Olympic boxing

Sport, life, This Sporting Life, and the hypertopia

‘Is India Racist?’: Murder, Migration and Mary Kom

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