Tag: women writers
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#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…
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#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…