Reddit reviews Real Knockouts: The Physical Feminism of Women's Self-Defense

There kind of is a book...

Real Knockouts: The Physical Feminism of Women's Self-Defense.

Except, it's not a self defense book so much as a book about self-defense. You're not going to learn how to defend yourself by reading it, but the author might convince you that the feminist movement could focus on self defense as a strategy for physical equality.

General sociology? Or...something specific...

Because I've read several sociology books that were rather interesting about specific issues (usually feminism)

Let's see here:

Hobos, Hustlers,and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco

Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street

Real Knockouts: The Physical Feminism of Women's Self-Defense

Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty: not technically sociology, but explains how proposed economic solutions to problems are tripped up and prevented in some way by sociological issues.

Personally, all of these books were hella interesting. I think Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders was the most sociological book I read. I had no idea wtf symbolic interactionism was when I read it...but I got the gist of it because the author writes lucidly.

One I haven't read is Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right. It's received nominations for awards and was very popular at one point.

I googled that for you!

And there seems to exist such a Book.

Doesn't make the story automatically true though. Might still even be an interesting read...

ok first of all, your post was removed: so you can get down off your high horse about how things work in this here sub.

second of all, your focus on "safety" is a myopic way to understand the word "empowerment." as i pointed out in my very first response to you: I am much more empowered by movements that encourage me to fight for my rights in the political arena that I am by measuring hemlines. Since you are unwilling to acknowledge any form of empowerment that does not specifically relate to women physically stopping their own sexual assaults, I'll indulge you on this exceedingly narrow topic:

https://www.feministselfdefense.com/

https://www.thehairpin.com/2014/01/the-shark-has-pretty-teeth-dear-why-i-teach-women-self-defense/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Real-Knockouts-Physical-Feminism-Self-Defense/dp/0814755771

https://feministvoicesblog.com/2018/01/30/knocking-down-patriarchy-feminism-and-womens-self-defense/

http://defendyourself.org/

https://fitisafeministissue.com/2015/06/25/what-feminist-self-defense-courses-can-do-guest-post/

https://klitbudapest.wordpress.com/2016/02/24/feminist-self-defence-training-march-2016/

http://journals.sagepub.com.proxy.library.cmu.edu/doi/abs/10.1177/089124387001001004

In these links I have provided academic studies, professional feminist self defense instructors/networks, information about local feminists groups running self defense training, and pop-feminist thought pieces that are all make argument about with the value of self-defense from a feminist perspective. From this, you can clearly see that feminists take multiple approaches to women's safety. Feminist self-defense expands the "stranger danger" focus traditional women's self defense classes and treats women's safety holistically, expanding tactics to cover to street harassment, workplace harassment, and date rape. In this way, feminists have improved upon and expanded the idea of women's "self-defense" beyond simply the unknown assailant waiting in the woods for his next victim (or should I say "survivor", which is the terminology that feminists often insist upon because they find the word victim disempowering) or obsessing over hemlines. This is a very real, very visible, and very present strain of feminist activism.