Women in boxing: Negotiating identity, gender, health and wellbeing

关于体育运动在影响人们的健康和福祉方面的作用的主要叙述往往提供两种两极分化的论点中的一种，即(1)体育运动通过排斥和极端身体练习的过程导致不良的身心健康和福祉(Van Raalte等人，2007年)或(2)体育运动通过参与可以降低确定的健康状况风险的活动而有益于身心健康和福祉(Juett等人，2014，Swann等人，2018)。虽然有确凿和令人信服的证据表明体育锻炼对身心健康和福祉有好处，但关于体育运动在促进公共健康方面的作用的文献只有一篇新出现(Cavill等人，2012年)。此外，运动有益健康的想法往往被认为是在其宣传和处方中(Mansfield和Malcolm，2010；Waddington和Smith，2013)。考虑到英国和国际上人们的健康和福祉的政策意义，以及公共健康和心理健康在体育政策中的优先地位，需要及时进一步研究体育对人民健康和福祉的作用的复杂性(Sports England，2012；DCMS，2015)。尽管制定了鼓励妇女和女孩更多地参与体育活动的政策，专门解决她们在保健活动中代表性不足的问题，但基于19世纪医学话语的历史排斥仍然盛行，这种话语将女性身体定义为虚弱、脆弱和需要保护(Velija和Mansfield，2017a)。由此产生的关于妇女和女孩适合的运动的性别假设，再加上基于阶级的协会，可能会阻碍女性参与某些被认为与既定的女性气质观念不相匹配的运动。这项研究旨在探索与女性拳击运动中身份认同和幸福感发展特别相关的健康和福祉问题。

Dominant narratives about the role of sport in influencing people's health and wellbeing tend to offer one of two polarised arguments that (1) sport participation leads to poor physical and mental health and wellbeing via processes of both exclusion and extreme bodily practices (Van Raalte et al., 2007) or (2) sport is good for physical and mental health and wellbeing by virtue of participation in an activity that can reduce the risk of identified health conditions (Jewett et al., 2014, Swann et al., 2018). Whilst there is established and compelling evidence of the physical and mental health and wellbeing benefits of physical activity, there is only a newly emerging literature on the role of sport in enhancing public health (Cavill et al., 2012). Moreover, the idea that sport is good for health tends to be assumed in its promotion and prescription (Mansfield and Malcolm, 2010; Waddington and Smith, 2013). Further examination of the complexities of the role of sport in peoples' health and wellbeing is needed and timely given the policy significance of health and wellbeing for people in the UK and internationally, and the prioritisation of public health and mental wellbeing in policy on sport (Sport England, 2012; DCMS, 2015). Although policies to encourage increased participation in physical activities by women and girls have been developed specifically to address their under-representation in a health-giving activity, historical exclusions based on 19th century medical discourse which defined female bodies as weak, fragile and in need of protection still prevail (Velija and Mansfield, 2017a). Resultant gendered assumptions concerning 'appropriate' sports for women and girls, coupled with class-based associations may contribute to barriers to female participation in certain sports that are deemed to be an inappropriate match to established ideas about femininity. This research aims to explore the issues of health and wellbeing specifically related to the development of identity and wellbeing of women in boxing.