The Urban Geography of Boxing : Race, Class, and Gender in the Ring /

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This book is an interdisciplinary cultural examination of twenty-first century boxing as a professional sport, a bodily labor, a lucrative business, a popular entertainment, and an instrument of ideology. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews conducted with Latino boxers, women boxers, and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Heiskanen, Benita
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
Colección:Routledge research in sport, culture and society.
Temas:
Boxing > Social aspects > United States.
Boxing > Social aspects > Cross-cultural studies.
Sociology, Urban.
Boxe > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Boxe > Aspect social > Études transculturelles.
Sociologie urbaine.
urban sociology.
Boxing > Social aspects
Sociology, Urban
United States
Cross-cultural studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:This book is an interdisciplinary cultural examination of twenty-first century boxing as a professional sport, a bodily labor, a lucrative business, a popular entertainment, and an instrument of ideology. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews conducted with Latino boxers, women boxers, and boxing insiders in Texas, it discusses boxing from the vantage point of the sundry players, who are involved with it: the labor force, promoters, handlers, ringside officials, medical professionals, media, and the audiences. The various parties have multiple stakes in the sport.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (211 pages).
ISBN:9781136314148
1136314148

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