ABSTRACT
Boxing is a sport where the cumulative long-term neurological effects of head trauma are recognized. This chapter shows how boxing has been re-configured, through a trauma-informed approach, into a non-contact form so that it plays an important role in the lives of women recovering from gender-based violence. Women’s experiences with trauma, gendered violence, and boxing are at the centre of analysis. The chapter also engages the scholarship and activism of feminist trauma work, and disrupts some of the focus of the “neuro revolution,” the increasing focus on brain science that too often obstructs the structural nature of gender-based violence and its impact on the everyday lives of women.
