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- sporten, sportberoepen, feminisme, patriarchaat, gender, equal treatment, gelijke behandeling, sexism, seksisme
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- Description provided by the artist: .The ethnographic context of my research project on sport and gender equality is a boxing academy in a city in Yorkshire, UK. Founded in the 1940s, the place is a nonprofit voluntary amateur boxing club that includes in its activities sex integrated sessions. Furthermore, it has been a platform for women and men at the competitive level. .In order to collect primary data, I have conducted selfimmersion in subcultural setting as a regular participant to the boxing place. By doing this I seek to establish “an experimental and appreciative relationship with the people” about whom I will write about (McCaughey, 1998:279). In accordance to this, Molnar points out that: “For the sake of understanding the field and rich data collection, an ethnographer often has to make some tough, potentially lifealtering choices to be able to carry out participant observation. In doing so, the researcher may have to put his/her body on the line to become an instrument of data collection.” (Molnar, 2015:3). .The objects that I am submitting in this round are contextualized in my first visit to the boxing gym. My intention with them is to represent on one side my embodiment of the field and on the other the existence of gender stereotypes not only in sportive contexts but also in our minds.. .Boxing is an urban phenomenon where violent physical contact is a key element. Historically it has been practiced by men of working classes even though nowadays women are participating in it and gender relations and identities have being challenged. Women, however, are still underrepresented and discriminated whilst men remain as role models and overall sport still produces orthodox masculinities and celebrates sex essentialist discourses. Furthermore, gender stereotypes remain. For these reasons boxing is a great field for analyzing gender in the frame of the research project “Sport as a site for the production of cultures of equality” which is part of the GRACE Work Package “Urban cultures of gender equality”.. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/
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- Szutenberg, Zuzanna
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- sports (eng), sporting occupations, sportberoepen, feminisme, gender, patriarchaat, patriarchy, equal treatment, gelijke behandeling, seksisme, sexism
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- Description provide by artist: .The submitted items for the Gender and Cultures of Equality Museum project is a pair of pink boxing gloves. The struggle of women for equality has often been expressed - verbally as well as through metaphors - through notions of battle or fight against patriarchal oppression.. .The right to vote and to participate in public and political life,. .The access to knowledge, education and professional careers,. .The query for decent salaries and women’s economic independence,. .The control over women’s bodies, their physical integrity and legitimacy of pleasures, . .their reproductive and family life decisions,. .The availability of legal protection and medical care,. .- to name only some of the grand narratives of the Women’s Movements during the past century.. .All these movements were lengthy and painful struggles. Many women risked and many women lost their lives for the cause. Each of these milestones on the way to gender equality has its heroines, its championnesses, however the faces of the masses of anonymous women supporting their leaders remain unacknowledged. Most history books do not mention famous women, protagonists of world changing events, let alone their countless sisters.. .Still today, every day, women fight on their collective or individual gender fronts. Yet, equality is far from being achieved. Still today, every day „often nothing tangible remains of a woman’s day” (Virginia Woolf, 1929).. .Every woman has her own battle for gender equality to fight.. .Every little girl should be given a pair of pink boxing gloves.. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/
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- feminisme, gender, patriarchaat, gelijke behandeling, seksisme, sporten, sportberoepen
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- Description provided by artist: .Do objects are gendered? They are. .Handguards are compulsory for female amateur boxers in competitions. On the other hand, in 2013, its use by male boxers was repealed of mandatory by the .amateur’s boxing international governing body, AIBA. .Head injuries are more likely wearing a head guard as they whip boxer’s head around, according to an AIBA’s study. However, arguing lack of “scientific” data for the .case of women, they should still wear it. Are women’s and men’s so different that the evidence is not enough to exclude women as well from using these items, or .using a feminist perspective: is that an international body, through a policy, is communicating that women we are a specie different than men? Or is it preventing to .exposure the fact that woman fight and bleed as male [boxers] do? Or is it reaffirming the discourse that a women should be pretty, otherwise it’s better not see her? .Wearing a head guard in a boxing fight is uncomfortable: you cannot see properly and it could move from its place. But what is most uncomfortable is the perverse .und sexist use of objects as well as biased scientific discourses and policies to reaffirm gender essentialist discourses and gender norms which led to inequality.. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/
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