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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Loïc J D Wacquant |
| ISBN: | 0195168356 9780195168358 |
| OCLC Number: | 51607336 |
| Description: | xiv, 274 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | The street and the ring -- An island of order and virtue -- "The boys who beat the street" -- A scientifically savage practice -- The social logic of sparring -- An implicit and collective pedagogy -- Managing bodily capital -- Fight night at Studio 104 -- "You scared I might mess up 'cause you done messed up" -- Weigh-in at the Illinois state building -- An anxious afternoon -- Welcome to Studio 104 -- Pitiful preliminaries -- Strong beats Hannah by TKO in the fourth -- Make way for the exotic dancers -- "You stop two more guys and I'll stop drinkin'" -- Busy Louise at the Golden Gloves. |
| Other Titles: | Corps et âme. Body and soul |
| Responsibility: | Loïc Wacquant. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
In the late 1980s Wacquant, a white, French-born, French and American sociology graduate student, entered the Woodlawn gym on 63rd Street in Chicago and began training as a boxer. This text invites us to follow Wacquant's immersion into the everyday world of Chicago's boxers.
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- Boxing -- Social aspects -- Illinois -- Chicago.
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- Inner cities -- United States.
- Sociology, Urban -- United States.
- Masculinity in popular culture -- United States.
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- Negers.
- Stadskernen.
- Mannelijkheid.
- Menselijk lichaam.

