Project Details
Description
Women’s Boxing Wales: Past, Present and Future (WBW) is a sporting heritage project lead by Dr Sarah Crews. The project draws on Sarah’s research with female boxers and seeks to document an alternative history of Welsh boxing: one that celebrates female participation within a historically male-dominated sport.
WBW develops on Sarah’s research on women’s boxing at large. Her contributions to co-authored projects Boxing and Performance: Memetic Hauntings and Boxing, Narrative and Culture: Critical Perspectives are principally concerned with how female boxers (historical and contemporary) understand the work that they do, and how the work of female boxers is narrated through popular discourse.
The core aim of Sarah’s work is to diversify boxing narratives, to celebrate the contributions of female participants in boxing, and to contribute towards discourses of equality, inclusion and social justice, particularly relating to perceptions of gender, class and race.
This project is funded by the National Lottery.
WBW develops on Sarah’s research on women’s boxing at large. Her contributions to co-authored projects Boxing and Performance: Memetic Hauntings and Boxing, Narrative and Culture: Critical Perspectives are principally concerned with how female boxers (historical and contemporary) understand the work that they do, and how the work of female boxers is narrated through popular discourse.
The core aim of Sarah’s work is to diversify boxing narratives, to celebrate the contributions of female participants in boxing, and to contribute towards discourses of equality, inclusion and social justice, particularly relating to perceptions of gender, class and race.
This project is funded by the National Lottery.
| Status | Active |
|---|---|
| Effective start/end date | 1/01/22 → … |
| Links | https://linktr.ee/womensboxingwales?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=90b1fb0b-670b-46f4-ac81-f18777c0a7d5 |