Editing Women's boxing (section)

== Women's boxing in pop culture ==
Until the 1990s, movies about female boxers were sparse and marketed as softcore [[X rating|X-rated]] films in order to cater to the mainstream male gaze. However, throughout the 1990s and 2000s, movies such as ''[[Blonde Fist]]'' (1991), ''[[Shadow Boxers]]'' (1999), and ''[[Girlfight]]'' (2000) were released and, according to scholar Camilla Fojas, changed boxing culture.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Fojas |first1=Camilla |date=2009 |title=Sports of Spectatorship: Boxing Women of Color in Girlfight and Beyond. |url=https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.0.0154. |journal=Cinema Journal |volume=49 |issue=1 |pages=103–104 |doi=10.1353/cj.0.0154 |access-date=1 October 2023}}</ref> The 2004 film ''[[Million Dollar Baby]]'', about a female boxer, received seven nominations at the [[77th Academy Awards]] and won four categories: [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]], [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]] (for [[Clint Eastwood]]), [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]] (for [[Hilary Swank]]), and [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]] (for [[Morgan Freeman]]). It has since been cited as one of the best movies of the 2000s, the [[21st century]], and [[List of films voted the best|of all-time]].<ref name="nytimes.com">{{cite news|last1=Dargis|first1=Manohla|last2=Scott|first2=A.O.|title=The 25 Best Films of the 21st Century...So Far|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/09/movies/the-25-best-films-of-the-21st-century.html|website=The New York Times|date=9 June 2017|access-date=8 July 2017}}</ref><ref name="parade.com">{{cite web |date=6 October 2023 |title=We Ranked the 100 Best Movies of All Time! |url=https://parade.com/1222580/samuelmurrian/best-movies-all-time/ |website=[[Parade (magazine)|Parade]]}}</ref>

Women's boxing has also been the topic of some books, for example [[Leah Hager Cohen]]'s ''Without Apology: Girls, Women, and the Desire to Fight'' (2005).<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Fojas |first1=Camilla |date=2009 |title=Sports of Spectatorship: Boxing Women of Color in Girlfight and Beyond. |url=https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.0.0154. |journal=Cinema Journal |volume=49 |issue=1 |page=108 |doi=10.1353/cj.0.0154 |access-date=1 October 2023}}</ref>