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Andres Dongo
November 6, 2017
In the senior thesis Getting Over the Weaker Sex: How America Grappled with the
Rise of Female Professional Wrestling in the Early Twentieth Century, Kindred clearly
defines her main argument as how Women wrestlers were successful at attracting
crowds and added a new direction to wrestling that men could not provide. As well she
describes as a following argument that female wrestling was successful because of the
rise of female viewership helped by television and also their presence at the ringside.
What I think really works in this thesis is how organized she is in her introduction that
just leads to keep reading to answer the aspects that she wants to develop,
Her use of sources made me realize i'm missing out on sources for my own research,
she grabs memoirs, newspapers, court cases, reference books and physical education
books of that time. I like also how she grabs a source that could deteriorate her
argument to become a convincing source of the pressure that the media was putting
towards the participation of women in manly sports in regards of affecting their body in
the eyes of man. The interpretation of the sources and how they interact to shape the
argument is what worked in this thesis and also what i learned from it.