Kicking ass and taking notes--what it\'s like to be a woman in the ring. --Sue Jaye Johnson.
Seconds Out is a must-read for anyone who feels the call of the bell and reverence for a good fight.
She honors the fighters, writers, and historians who have come before her and definitively ends the idea of Women fighters as a novelty. --Trevor Wittman, renowned MMA trainer, UFC analyst, and founder of ONX Sports Trained in the discipline and art of both Fighting and literature, Dean combines both with style.
Jennings, author of Mixed Martial Arts: A History from Ancient Fighting Sports to the UFC Dean brings a fresh new female voice to the topic of combat sports. --L.
A.
Seconds Out is a must-read for all fighters looking for mentors in the complicated world of martial arts.
An important addition to women\'s martial arts scholarship, Dean provides personal insight into the radical space Women occupy in sport fighting.
Combining historical research, anecdotal experience, and interviews with coaches and fighters, Seconds Out explores our culture\'s relationship with violence, and particularly with violence practiced by women.
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. "You punch like a girl" still isn\'t a compliment -- Women aren\'t supposed to choose to participate in violence.
But despite several amateur fights under her belt, she knows she will never be taken as seriously as a male boxer.
Hard.
She also punches people.
Alison Dean teaches English literature.
Kicking ass and taking notes--what it\'s like to be a woman in the ring
