Sociology Of Sports

New PDF release: Globalizing Boxing (Globalizing Sport Studies)

By Kath Woodward

ISBN-10: 1474253059

ISBN-13: 9781474253055

ISBN-10: 1849668108

ISBN-13: 9781849668101

Boxing is a conventional activity in lots of methods, characterised by means of continuities within the kind of practices and rules and heavy with legends and heroes reflecting its traditional/historical values. institutions with category, hegemonic masculinity and racialized inclusions/exclusions, besides the fact that, take a seat along advancements resembling women's boxing and involvement in combined Martial Arts.
This publication often is the first to take advantage of boxing as a automobile for exploring social, cultural and political switch in a world context. it is going to deliberate to what measure and in what methods boxing displays social ameliorations, and even if and the way it contributes to these variations. In exploring the connection it is going to offer new methods of pondering seriously concerning the everyday.

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