Boxing, Masculinity and Identity

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 in...

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Main Author: Woodward, Kath (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis 2007
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