Beauchez, Jérôme
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
- Author(s)
- Beauchez, Jérôme
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2018
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Cultural Sociology
- Page amount
- 26 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9783319560298
- Printed ISBN
- 978-3-319-56028-1