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"Kicking ass and taking notes - what it's like to be a woman in the ring. Alison Dean teaches English literature. She also punches people. But despite several amateur fights under her belt, she knows she will never be taken as seriously as a male boxer. 'You punch like a girl' still isn't a compliment - women aren't supposed to perpetrate violence. With wit and insight, Dean delves into the ways combat sports can change a person's - and particularly a woman's - relationship to their body and to the world around them, considering at the same time how women might revolutionize martial arts."--

Martial arts --- Boxing --- Boxing for women. --- Women martial artists. --- Women boxers. --- Violence in women. --- Social aspects.

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Amazones --- Amazons --- Feminist theory --- Human body --- Body, Human --- Amazons. --- Women bodybuilders --- Women martial artists --- Women athletes --- THéorie féministe --- Corps humain --- Social aspects --- Political aspects --- Aspect social --- THéorie féministe --- United States --- Body, Human - Political aspects - United States. --- Women bodybuilders - United States. --- Women martial artists - United States. --- Women athletes - United States.

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In the Netherlands, girls and young women are increasingly active in women-only kickboxing. The general assumption, in the Netherlands and in western Europe more broadly, is that women's sport is a form of secular, feminist empowerment. Muslim women's participation would then exemplify the incongruence of Islam with the modern, secular nation-state. Punching Back provides a detailed ethnographic study that contests this view by showing that young Muslim women who kickbox establish agentive selves by playing with gender norms, challenging expectations, and living out their religious subjectivities.

Kickboxing --- Muslim women --- Self-realization in women --- Sports and state --- Sports for women --- Sports --- Women martial artists --- SPORTS & RECREATION / Sociology of Sports. --- Conduct of life. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Social aspects --- Religious aspects --- Islam. --- Sociology, Anthropology (General), Gender Studies and Sexuality. --- Kick-boxing --- Martial arts --- Female martial artists --- Martial artists --- Women athletes --- Women --- Women's sports --- Physical education for women --- Sports policy --- State and sports --- Government policy --- Psychology --- SPORTS & RECREATION / Sociology of Sports --- Conduct of life --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Islam