Refereed scientific book or report (C1)

The Urban Geography of Boxing – Race, Class, and Gender in the Ring




SubtitleRace, Class, and Gender in the Ring

List of AuthorsHeiskanen Benita

Publication year2012

Book title *Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

Title of seriesRoutledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

ISBN978-0-415-50226-9

eISBN978-0-203-11928-0

DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/GV1136.8H452012

URLhttp://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415502269/


Abstract

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 ethnohraphic fieldwork and interviews conducted with Latino boxers, women boxers, and boxing insiders in Texas, it discusses boxing from the vantage point of the sundry players, who are involved with it: the labor force, promoters, handlers, ringside officials, medical professionals, media, and the audiences. The various parties have multiple stakes in the sport. For some, boxing is about physical empowerment; others are in it for the money; some deploy it for ideological purposes; yet others use it to claim their 15-minutes of fame, and frequently the various interests overlap.


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