By Isa Goldberg February 12, 2026: It's Intriguing to me to read women writers on boxing and wrestling -- sports so demonstrably masculine, they would seem out of reach. However, a writer known for doing just that, Joyce Carol Oates, states in her titular book, On Boxing, "To write about boxing is to write about oneself--however elliptically, and unintentionally."Â After all, just watching boxers and wresters in…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:42PM on February 12, 2026