"Girls are beter than boys at karate" with Chloe Maclean

Chloe Maclean is a sociology lecturer, gender, embodiment and karate researcher and international karate athlete from Scotland. 

Her research has explored how ideas of gender are negotiated, subverted, and embodied in the inter-bodily experience of mixed-sex karate training, and what lessons this can bring for developing gender equality in sport and society more broadly.  

Chloe and Georgia discuss: 

• Why Chloe thinks people say "Martial Arts saved them" 
• How Chloe got into researching gender and karate 
• What makes friendship bonds so strong in karate

On twitter you can find Chloe at @ChloeMaclean https://twitter.com/ChloeMaclean

Thank you so much to Nari for the beautiful song "Shape Me" heard at the beginning and end of this episode. Nari wrote this song about Shape Your Life, a boxing program for self-identified women survicors of violence in Canada. She wrote this song using the words and experiences shared by participants with Cathy Van Ingen. You can find out more about Shape Your Life in my interview with Cathy in Episode 8. You can hear more of Nari's work by going to her Instagram: @narithesaga