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1541 Pedro de Valdivia leads a military expedition whose members in- clude his mistress, Inés Suárez, overland from Peru into ce ...

About 1650 Doña Eustaquia de Sonza and Doña Ana Lezama de Ur- inza of Potosí, Alto Perú, become the most famous female swashbuck ...

young man from Bordeaux. Marie was hit in the thigh with the first shot, leaving Aimée free to marry the young man. (Or so said ...

boxing match, their faces entirely covered with blood, bosoms bare, and the clothes nearly torn from them.” These “she-devils” w ...

About 1794 According to sociologist Jennifer Hargreaves, a boxing match between two Englishwomen was described: “Great intensity ...

named Lascarina Bouboulina, who commands ships in battle against the Turks and Egyptians, and takes pride in taking and discardi ...

childless Blackfeet women to participate in horse-stealing expeditions. Cross-dressing men (berdache) also accompanied Plains In ...

weak and unfit as its goal. People who did not read him closely soon ap- plied this theory to social dynamics, and called the re ...

included Eleanor Baldwin Cass, and students included Marion Fish and Natalie Wells. 1881 A Swedish woman named Martina Bergman-O ...

in which kicking was allowed, were also popular. Girls as young as 12 years headed the bills. Cuts were stitched on the spot, an ...

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Freeman, Lucy, and Alma Bond. 1992. America’s First Woman Warrior: The Courage of Deborah Sampson.New York: Paragon Books. Gasco ...

Miletich, Leo N. 1994. Dan Stuart’s Fistic Carnival.College Station: Texas A&M University Press. Murcott, Susan. 1991. The F ...

Yip, Chun, with Danny Connor. 1993. Wing Chun Martial Arts: Principles and Techniques.York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser. Women in th ...

Proponents of the art suggested from the first that jûdô would be use- ful for women. One early book advocating this was A. Cher ...

garding all female athletics. The fear seems to have been that “respectable” boys would not marry girls who could beat them at a ...

In the words of a Scientific American author in 1936, “Feminine muscular de- velopment interferes with motherhood” (Laird 1936). ...

participation and success by women will eliminate the token aspects of re- sponses to them. Or will the cognitive inconsistency ...

Gorn, Elliott J., and Warren Goldstein. 1993. A Brief History of American Sports.New York: Hill and Wang. Guttman, Allen. 1991. ...

that women in that region were reported to have carried halberds and bows and arrows, and practiced spear routines alongside the ...