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

"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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Uniform Title:Routledge research in sport, culture and society ; 13.
Main Author: Heiskanen, Benita
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2012.
Series:Routledge research in sport, culture and society ; 13.
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Physical Description:xvii, 192 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book

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