Seconds Out av Alison Dean

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<p><strong>Kicking ass and taking notes—what it’s like to be a woman in the ring.</strong></p><p>Alison Dean teaches English literature. She also punches people. Hard. But despite several amateur fights under her belt, she knows she will never be taken as seriously as a male boxer. “You punch like a girl” still isn’t a compliment — women aren’t supposed to choose to participate in violence.</p><p>Her unique perspective as a 30-something university lecturer turned amateur fighter allows Dean to articulately and with great insight delve into the ways martial arts can change a person’s — and particularly a woman’s — relationship to their body and to the world around them, and at the same time considers the ways in which women might change martial arts.</p><p>Combining historical research, anecdotal experience, and interviews with coaches and fighters, <em>Seconds Out</em> explores our culture’s relationship with viole