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Montoya, Delilah. Women Boxers; The New Warriors. With essays by Maria Teresa Márquez and C. Ondine Chavoya. Houston: Arte Público P, 2006. 96 pp. Paper. 1-55885-475-4.
As Márquez outlines in her introduction, women boxers, at least in Anglo-American culture, go back to England in the eighteenth century, when it was assumed that women who fought each other were on the fringes of social decency, harlots, and probably heavily masculine-identified. Although women's boxing retains much of these stereotypic determinants, Montoya's dossier of photographs is affirmatively committed to legitimizing female boxing as the feminist right for the woman to dispose of her own body, for her to take advantage of Title IX gender equality in sports, and, most significant, to...