Tag: women at boxing

  • #99: ‘Kill The Body, The Head Will Fall’ by Rene Denfeld

    #99: ‘Kill The Body, The Head Will Fall’ by Rene Denfeld

    ‘Kill The Body, The Head Will Fall: A closer look at women, violence, and aggression’ was written by Rene Denfeld, and published by Vintage in 1997. What a pleasant surprise this book turned out to be! I completely expected it to be a personal story about the author’s experiences as an amateur boxer (which I…

  • #17: ‘My Sisters and I at a New York Prizefight’ by Djuna Barnes

    #17: ‘My Sisters and I at a New York Prizefight’ by Djuna Barnes

    ‘My Sisters and I at a New York Prizefight’ is an article taken from ‘Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth’, a collection of the early works of avant-garde writer Djuna Barnes. The article describes Barnes and a group of women friends attending a boxing event in 1914, at Brown’s Athletic Club in New York, headlined…