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Boxing is infused with ideas about masculinity, power, race and social class, and as such is an ideal lens through which social scientists can examine key modern themes. In addition, its inherent contradictions of extreme violence and beauty and of discipline and excess have long been a source of inspiration for writers and film makers. Essential reading for anyone interested in the sociology of sport and cultural representations of gender, Boxing, Masculinity and Identity brings together ethnographic research with material from film, literature and journalism. Through this combination of theoretical insight and cultural awareness, Woodward explores the social constructs around boxing and our experience and understanding of central issues including: masculinity mind, body and the construction of identity spectacle and performance: tensions between the public and private person boxing on film: the role of cultural representations in building identities methodologies: issues of authenticity and ‘truth’ in social science.
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Keywords
- Bare Knuckle Fighting
- Bodily Reflexive Practices
- body
- Body Regimes
- boxers
- Boxing Hero
- Boxing Masculinities
- Boxing stories
- Cassius Clay
- Chicago School Ethnography
- Cinderella Man
- Contemporary Societies
- hegemonic
- hero
- Loic Wacquant
- masculinities
- mens
- Men’s Boxing
- Merleau Ponty’s Understanding
- Million Dollar Baby
- Ontological Complicity
- public
- Rocky Balboa
- Routine
- Routine Masculinities
- Socio-economic Class
- Stories
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBS Sociology: sport and leisure
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
- thema EDItEUR::S Sports and Active outdoor recreation
- Women
- Women Boxers
- Young men
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DOI: 10.4324/9780203020180Editions