Here's an interview with the author of #HerOwnHero Wendy Rouse!

https://player.fm/series/dirty-white-belt-radio/dr-wendy-rouse-the-history-of-womens-self-defense-jiu-jitsu

#dirtywhitebelt #bjj #bjjwomen #blackbeltwomen #selfdefense #fightingsports #womensfitness #womensfightingsports

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She's A Knockout is a fast paced, brief introduction to the history of women's fighting sports. Jennings uses mini biographies and interesting anecdotes to highlight main characters throughout the evolution of women's professional fighting sports. Although only covering the Western world, the stories are chosen to represent the progress and backlash, periods of history from the Victorian era to the present, as well as struggles in race, class, and gender.
#womensgrappling #fightingsports

Quote about women in #fightingsports:

"In addition, the Supreme Court, which consisted entirely of men, decided that it needed to uphold laws protecting public health and morality, as well as the rights of men to stop the "ever-increasing feminine encroachment upon what for ages had been considered strictly as manly arts and priveliges." "

(Manly arts and priveliges, lol.)

From She's A Knockout, by LA Jennings

#grappling #bjjwomen #brazilianjiujitsu #womensgrappling #bjj #boxing #martialarts

Quote from She's A Knockout (Jennings)
p. xli "Women have been competing in #fightingsports for thousands of years, despite the perpetual claims by opponents of #femalefighters that they do not belong in the ring, on the mat, or in the cage. The convenient forgetfulness or misremembering of the past is a way to erase the history of female fighters and substantiate the inaccurate belief that women have never, and will never, belong in certain male spaces."
#feminism #bjj #brazilianjiujitsu