E20: Wrestling is Women’s Work - Part 3 with Sarah Elizabeth Cox
Sarah Elizabeth Cox joins the Wonderkamer as our first guest as we explore the history of women’s wrestling and the labour conditions of female wrestlers up until the 1990s.
Sources and Further Reading
Cox, S. E. (n.d.). Grappling with history: Rediscovering the wrestlers and boxers of late-Victorian London. https://grapplingwithhistory.com/
Hornbaker, T. (2007). National Wrestling Alliance: The Untold Story of the monopoly that strangled pro wrestling. ECW Press.
Langmead, J. (2024). Ballyhoo!: The roughhousers, con artists, and wildmen who invented pro wrestling. Independently published.
Laprade, P., & Murphy, D. (2017). Sisterhood of the squared circle: The history and rise of women’s wrestling. ECW Press.
McClean, R. (2019, February 13). WWE superstars’ salaries and wages 'revealed' with John Cena trailing Roman Reigns. Mirror. https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/other-sports/wrestling/wwe-superstars-salaries-wages-cena-14069375
Meltzer, D. (2024, February 19). Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
Oun, A. (2023, April 7). The horrific true story about Vince McMahon and Ashley Massaro. FandomWire. https://fandomwire.com/the-horrific-true-story-about-vince-mcmahon-and-ashley-massaro/
Powell, D. (2020, November 23). Wrestlers have always wanted a union. Why don’t they have one? Organizing Work. https://organizing.work/2020/11/wrestlers-have-always-wanted-a-union-why-dont-they-have-one/
Riesman, A. J. (2023). Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the unmaking of America. Atria Books.
Stern, K. (2024). DragonKingKarl’s pioneer era pro wrestling omnibus: The Bible of the pioneer era of pro wrestling. When It Was Cool.
Todd, J. (1990). The origins of weight training inside the American university. Iron Game History: The Journal of Physical Culture, 1(2), 4–11. https://journalofphysicalculture.org/
Wilson, J., & Johnson, W. (2003). Chokehold: Pro wrestling’s real mayhem outside the ring.