Writers on Boxing

Tag: women sports writers

  • #105: ‘The Promise of Women’s Boxing: A Momentous New Era for the Sweet Science’ by Malissa Smith

    #105: ‘The Promise of Women’s Boxing: A Momentous New Era for the Sweet Science’ by Malissa Smith

    In The Promise of Women’s Boxing, the follow up to her book A History of Women’s Boxing, author Malissa Smith covers the international developments in women’s boxing between 2012 and 2014. The book is published by Rowman and Littlefield. (This will likely be my last book post for a while as I’m due to start…

  • #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…

  • #43: ‘Ringside, Hearthside’ by Dave Kaszuba

    #43: ‘Ringside, Hearthside’ by Dave Kaszuba

    ‘Ringside, Hearthside – Sports Scribe Jane Dixon Embodies Struggle of Jazz Age Women Caught Between Two Worlds’ is an article by Dave Kaszuba originally published in Journalism History. (DOI: 10.1080/00947679.2009.12062796) Jane Dixon regularly wrote about boxing during the 1920s, for both the New York Herald Tribune and New York Tribune, and was, according to Dave…