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Subject(s)

• Boxing—Social aspects [Browse]
• Boxing in mass media [Browse]

Editor

• Crews, Sarah [Browse]
• Lennox, P. Solomon [Browse]

Series

Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society Series [More in this series]

Notes

Includes index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Introduction
• Part 1 Serious Athletes and the Politics of Community
• 1 Increasing Visibility and the (Re)presentation of Female Boxers in Print Media
• 2 Influencer Boxing: Authenticity and the Quest for Redemption
• 3 Ducking and Diving: Why Boxing Clubs Hit the Targets Other Sports Cannot Reach in Deprived Communities
• 4 Narratives of Struggle: Boxing, Gender, and Community
• 5 Practicing Otherwise: Feminist Boxing Challenges Mainstream Narratives of Combat Sports
• 6 Reflections on the Empowerment of Women in Boxing from Athletes and Coaches in Norway Female Box
• Part 2 (De)constructing Self, to Be Somebody
• 7 Trans Boxing: A Boxing Club, an Art Project
• 8 Katie Taylor: Complicating a Boxing Identity
• 9 Letting Down the Team? Individualism, Selfishness, and Kinship in Women's Boxing
• 10 Alfonso 'Mosquito' Zvenyika and the Dominant Narratives on Boxing in Post-Colonial Zimbabwe
• 11 Political Symbolism of Mary Kom from the Manipuri Autobiography to the Indian Blockbuster
• 12 Turn the Volume Up! Boxing Hearts and Beats
• 13 Gender Transgression in the (Trans)National Domain: Laura Serrano and Women's Boxing in Mexico
• Afterword: Boxing and Cultural Value
• Index.

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ISBN

• 1-00-331263-2
• 1-003-31263-2
• 1-000-97022-1

OCLC

1393305306

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