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

关于体育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个两极分化的论点之一，即（1）体育参与通过排斥和极端身体实践的过程导致不良的身心健康和福祉（货车Raalte等人，2007）或（2）由于参与可降低所确定的健康状况的风险的活动，运动有益于身体和精神健康和幸福（朱厄特等人，2014年，Swann等人，2018年）。虽然有确定的和令人信服的证据表明身体和精神健康以及身体活动的福祉，但只有一个新出现的文献关于体育在增强公共健康方面的作用（Cavill等人，2012年）。此外，体育有益于健康的观点往往被认为是在其推广和处方中（曼斯菲尔德和马尔科姆，2010年;沃丁顿和史密斯，2013年）。鉴于健康和福祉对英国和国际人民的政策意义，以及公共健康和心理健康在体育政策中的优先地位，需要及时进一步审查体育在人民健康和福祉中作用的复杂性（Sport England，2012; DCMS，2015）。尽管已经制定了鼓励妇女和女孩更多参与体育活动的政策，以解决她们在健康活动中代表性不足的问题，但基于19世纪世纪医学论述的历史排斥仍然盛行，这些论述将女性身体定义为虚弱、脆弱和需要保护的（Velija和曼斯菲尔德，2017年a）。由此产生的关于妇女和女孩“适当”运动的性别假设，加上基于阶级的协会，可能会阻碍妇女参与某些被认为不符合既定女性观念的运动。本研究旨在探讨健康和福祉的问题，特别是与发展的身份和福祉的妇女在拳击。

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.