Benita Heiskanen

The Urban Geography of Boxing (eBook, PDF)

Race, Class, and Gender in the Ring

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This fascinating analysis of power relations embedded in sport, culture, and society combines ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, and theoretical analysis to offer a timely interdisciplinary perspective to existing scholarship on boxing. It will be of interest to readers in Sport Studies, Cultural Studies, Cultural Geography, Gender Studies, Critical Race Theory, Labor Studies, and American Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136314148
• Artikelnr.: 38263606

Autorenporträt

Benita Heiskanen is Director of the John Morton Center for North American Studies at the University of Turku, Finland.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. On the Barrio's Ropes 2. Wo/Manly Art at the Gym 3.
Business is Business Backdoors 4. The Limelight of the Ring 5. Through the
Media's Lens 6. Politicking in Combat Zones 7. The Ivory Tower in the Real
World. Epilogue.