Boxing, the Gym, and Men

Part I. In Private: Where the Blows Resound

1. The Stranger: Portrait of the Boxer as a Young Man
Jérôme Beauchez

2. Incorporating the Novice: The Elementary Forms of the Boxing Experience
Jérôme Beauchez

3. The Punching Factory: Boxers and Daily Life
Jérôme Beauchez

4. When Boxers “Put on the Gloves”: Sparring and the Limits of the Fighter’s Institutionalization
Jérôme Beauchez

Part II. Facing the Other: Trials of the Self

5. Counting the Blows: The Mark(s) of Exile
Jérôme Beauchez

6. “Like a Man”: Facing Adversity
Jérôme Beauchez

7. Boxing vs. the “Poor Life”
Jérôme Beauchez

8. The Clash of the Strongmen: Fighting in Public
Jérôme Beauchez

Keywords: Social Sciences, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Ethnography