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Body & soul : notebooks of an apprentice boxer /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wacquant, Loïc J. D.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Boxing > Social aspects > Illinois > Chicago.
Sports > Anthropological aspects > United States.
Inner cities > United States.
Sociology, Urban > United States.
Masculinity in popular culture > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • The street and the ring
  • An island of order and virtue
  • "The boys who beat the street"
  • A scientifically savage practice
  • The social logic of sparring
  • An implicit and collective pedagogy
  • Managing bodily capital
  • Fight night at Studio 104
  • "You scared I might mess up 'cause you done messed up"
  • Weigh-in at the Illinois state building
  • An anxious afternoon
  • Welcome to Studio 104
  • Pitiful preliminaries
  • Strong beats Hannah by TKO in the fourth
  • Make way for the exotic dancers
  • "You stop two more guys and I'll stop drinkin'"
  • Busy Louise at the Golden Gloves.