Female Fighting

From Rachel:

Highlighting a great website Lorraine found recounting the history of female combat.  Just spent my morning coffee time surfing around this site, taking in some articles here and there.   Highly recommend it if you are involved with creating this project.  (Certainly also recommend if you are just catching this posting.)  Link below or click on the title of this posting.

http://www.fscclub.com/history/zhened-old.shtml

In particular there is a a link on the main page to an article on women's boxing.  Riveting.  The author aims to examine the relationship between the physical body (and its use) and how meaning and identity is derived from it and shaped by it.  Are we not attempting to amplify and exaggerate these meanings/identities in BBWSF?  And in doing so, we therefore create new meanings/identities? Not trying to imply this production is so overtly politically and socially active, or that it is so academically minded. But as I wrestle with what "exploiting" means (when I hear the show "exploits women and violence") this is what I think it can result in: capitalizing on the existence accepted (social?) beliefs.... over-inflating them for the purposes of showing their flaws, their falseness.