{"id":1585,"date":"2006-09-18T23:05:17","date_gmt":"2006-09-18T23:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1585"},"modified":"2006-09-18T23:10:30","modified_gmt":"2006-09-18T23:10:30","slug":"womens-boxing-then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1585","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s boxing, then and now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to this week&#8217;s <em>Time Out<\/em>, the first recorded women&#8217;s boxing match (at least in the UK) was in 1722, between Elizabeth Wilkinson and Hannah Hayfield, for a prize of three guineas. The event was held in Islington (probably away from the prying eyes of the authorities, I&#8217;d suspect) and Wilkinson won. (I couldn&#8217;t find a web reference.)<\/p>\n<p>Yet after men&#8217;s boxing was legalised and regularised, women&#8217;s remained illegal in the UK, and was only legalised in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>The first televised bout will be shown on Chanel Five on Friday September 29 at midnight.<\/p>\n<p>How do I feel about it? Well I&#8217;m somewhat in two minds about boxing in general, but if the men can do it, there&#8217;s no reason why women shouldn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to this week&#8217;s Time Out, the first recorded women&#8217;s boxing match (at least in the UK) was in 1722, between Elizabeth Wilkinson and Hannah Hayfield, for a prize of three guineas. The event was held in Islington (probably away from the prying eyes of the authorities, I&#8217;d suspect) and Wilkinson won. (I couldn&#8217;t find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}