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Reviewed on February 1, 2017 | Arts and Humanities
From carnival tents to pay-per-view extravaganzas, women wrestlers have always grappled in the shadows of their male counterparts. Often exploited by promoters and misunderstood by audiences, early ring queens such as Mildred Burke and the Fabulous Moolah laid the groundwork for the mainstream popularity of professional wrestling in the 1980s and beyond. Their stories and the history of women's wrestling, however, have not been seriously examined until no...Log In or Sign Up to Read More