L.A. Jennings

A good review of the history of known women fighters in the US and Great Britain. This book is well researched and well footnoted, dashing several popular myths and building up a better image of the role and perception of women fighters in the last couple centuries (where there is documentation).

This book would be interesting, I think, to any female fighter looking for a broader perspective of her craft and where the journey to be just a "fighter" instead of a "female fighter" stands and where it has come from, or to anyone seeking a more general understanding of the "new" phenomenon of female fighters (spoiler: it's not new ;) ).… (mehr)