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Body & soul : notebooks of an apprentice boxer

Author: Loïc J D Wacquant
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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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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.
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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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