The urban geography of boxing : race, class, and gender in the ring / Benita Heiskanen.

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Heiskanen, Benita
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Routledge, 2012.
Series:	Routledge research in sport, culture and society ; 13.
Subjects:	Boxing > Social aspects > United States. Boxing > Social aspects > Cross-cultural studies. Sociology, Urban. SPORTS & RECREATION / General. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban. SPORTS & RECREATION / Sociology of Sports.
Genre:	Cross-cultural studies.
Physical Description:	xvii, 192 pages ; 24 cm.
Format:	Book

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