TY  - BOOK
AU  - David Scott
PY  - 2015
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1664-1906
SN  - 9783035307658
TI  - Cultures of Boxing
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-0353-0765-8
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1053401
N2  - Bringing together boxing writers from different cultural and disciplinary perspectives, this book offers a vital and original contribution to the understanding of this enduringly fascinating and controversial sport.  This collected volume investigates what is at stake in boxing in the modern world by exploring different aspects of boxing culture and problematic concepts attached to the sport such as masculinity and violence. This approach implies input from different academic and creative disciplines including aesthetics, cultural studies, creative writing, anthropology, history, literature and sociology. The points of view of participants in boxing as a sport, amateur and professional, will also be incorporated. In this way, themes as different as what it feels like to receive a punch on the nose or the role of fist-fighting in traditional Russian folk customs will be explored.
KW  - Boxing, masculinity, sporting violence
LA  - English
ER  -