Andrea Böhm – Fighting Like a Woman

In the organizer's words:

Female boxers in the early 18th century, jiu-jitsu suffragettes, Kurdish fighters at arms: this book tells the forgotten history of fighting women.

In times of a global anti-feminist backlash, journalist Andrea Böhm tells the forgotten stories of those women who physically rebelled against oppression and gender boundaries. Whether in the ring, at home or on the battlefield, women have always challenged the dogma of their physical inferiority to men. Andrea Böhm asks whether the female body is really as defenceless as we are taught from childhood. The male monopoly on violence: a myth? On her travels, she meets Mexican female wrestlers who fight breakneck against the female victim role; Kurdish female militiamen who dream of a feminist utopia in war; Kenyan and German schoolgirls who learn that anger is a liberating feeling - and that self-defense is their right. And she meets men who support these girls and women. They are all convinced that self-confident female body awareness is a prerequisite for an equal society. An indispensable and personal plea for physical feminism.

Moderation: Johanna Leibecke

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