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Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor Kath Woodward is Professor of Sociology and Head of Department at the Open University. Her publications include Embodied Sporting Practices Regulating and Regulatory bodies (Palgrave MacMillan, 2009), Social Sciences; the Big Issues,2nd edition (Routledge, 2009) Boxing Masculinity and Identity: the "I" of the Tiger (Routledge, 2007), Questions of Identity (Routledge, 2004), Understanding Identity (Arnold, 2002) and, with Sophie Woodward, Why Feminism Matters (Palgrave MacMillan, 2009). She has just completed work on Sport Across Diasporas at the BBC World Service as part of the AHRC funded, Diasporas, Migration and Identities programme and works on gender race and diversity at the ESRC funded Centre for Research into Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC) at the Open University and Manchester University. She is on the editorial board of Soccer and Society and the Journal of Leisure Studies and has forthcoming special editions of Soccer and Society, Football, Sounds and Things and of the journal M/C on Diasporas. This book uses boxing as a vehicle for exploring social, cultural and political change in a global context. It considers to what degree and in what ways boxing reflects social transformations, and how it contributes to those transformations. Woodward provides new ways of thinking critically about our everyday assumptions and social world. Zusammenfassung This book uses boxing as a vehicle for exploring social, cultural and political change in a global context. It considers to what degree and in what ways boxing reflects social transformations, and how it contributes to those transformations. Woodward provides new ways of thinking critically about our everyday assumptions and social world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Strands and Traditions. Economic of Scale Inside and Outside the Ring. Boxing Rules and Regulations Transforming the Fight Game. Conclusion Index...
