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Reach: Girls, Women, and the Desire to Fight by Leah Cohen (Hardcover, 2005)

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Any girl who boxes challenges, wittingly or not, the idea of what it means to be a girl in our culture. Through the prism of what she does with her fists, she sheds a fiercely contrarian light on our most fundamental notions about femininity and power and appetite and shame and desire. Thus writes Leah Hager Cohen in Without Apology, her singular exploration of the world of female aggression. In the fall of 2001, Cohen met up with four girls, ages ten to fifteen, and their female coach at the Somerville Boxing Club. Over the course of a year, she grew close to them all-spending time at the old-style boxing club where they trained several times a week and at their homes, schools, and neighborhood hangouts. She learned about their families, the housing projects where they lived, their explosive friendships and steadfast loyalties, and especially about the damage that had turned each of them into a fighter. Fascinated by the freedom the girls had in the ring, Cohen began training and sparring with them and their coach-only to find herself astounded by the strength and authority of her body, and by the way boxing opened up and brought clarity to her old issues about eating, anger, sexuality, and survival. Spirited and provocative, Without Apology is Cohen's account of what she discovered in the gym: about herself, about girls who box, and ultimately about the buried connections between femininity and aggression. Aggression and desire are inseparable, writes Cohen. For they are forbidden to girls in equal measure, and they are also in equal measure requisite for life. Without Apology is sure to influence the ways in which all women-mothers and daughters, athletes and artists, teachers and learners of every description-see themselves in the world.

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Random House USA Inc
ISBN-13
9781400061570
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Subject Area
Gender Issues
Author
Leah Cohen
Publication Name
Reach: Girls, Women, and the Desire to Fight
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2005
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
192 Pages

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250mm

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Leah Cohen
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States

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