This is reflected not least in the illustrations.

#BoxingDiscourse #Boxsportdiskurs #GenderConstructions

I recently found some early german language training manuals on #boxing for women from the 1980s. What at first glance looks like boxing was slowly opening up to women in this period actually adjusts traditional #gender divisions and constructions over the newly drawn difference between 'fitness boxing' or 'boxing gymnastics' and 'real', 'genuine' or 'hard‘ boxing.

#BoxingDiscourse #Boxsportdiskurs #GenderConstructions