Globalizing Boxing (Globalizing Sport Studies) - Softcover

Woodward, Kath

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1474253059 ISBN 13: 9781474253055

Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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Críticas:

Kath Woodward does a great job of demonstrating how boxing can provide a constructive site for exploring social, economic, political and cultural processes ... and [sheds] light on the many contradictions that shape boxing today ... Woodward's book is a good read for any boxing fan ... [as well as] academics and others interested in gender studies in sport. * Idrottsforum - Nordic Sport Science Forum *

Reseña del editor:

Boxing is a traditional sport in many ways, characterized by continuities in the form of practices and regulations and heavy with legends and heroes reflecting its traditional/historical values. Associations with class, hegemonic masculinity and racialized inclusions/exclusions, however, sit alongside developments such as women's boxing and involvement in Mixed Martial Arts.
This book will be the first to use boxing as a vehicle for exploring social, cultural and political change in a global context. It will consider to what degree and in what ways boxing reflects social transformations, and whether and how it contributes to those transformations. In exploring the relationship it will provide new ways of thinking critically about the everyday.

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• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1474253059
• ISBN 13: 9781474253055
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192