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

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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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.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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