Globalizing boxing

by Woodward, Kath

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Full title :Globalizing boxing / Kath Woodward.

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This book uses boxing as a vehicle for exploring social, cultural and political change in a global context. It considers to what degree and in what ways boxing reflects social transformations, and how it contributes to those transformations. Woodward provides new ways of thinking critically about our everyday assumptions and social world.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Boxing Going Global -- Globalizing forces -- G/local forces -- Sex gender and boxing -- Changing times -- 2 Traditions and Histories: Connections and Disconnections -- Roots and routes -- The classical golden age -- The Fancy and the English golden age -- Rules and regulations -- Women's boxing in the English golden age -- Twentieth-century geographical shifts and golden ages -- Conclusion: Looking back and moving on -- 3 Movements and Mobilities -- Cultural diaspora -- Race and boxing -- Travelling boxers -- Thai boxing: Muay Thai -- Conclusion -- 4 Cultural Economies of Scale -- Global forces: Local imperatives -- Boxing celebrities and heroes -- Modern boxing: The economics of the fight game -- Modern boxing: Pivotal moments -- The Mob -- Boxing now: A tangled web -- Excitement and danger -- Managing change -- Exploitation: Good practice and bad practice -- Conclusion -- 5 Boxing Bodies and Everyday Routines -- Boxing bodies -- Sex gender -- Beautiful bodies: Broken bodies -- Women and men and gendered bodies -- Lived bodies: Situated bodies as situations -- Bourdieu, physical capital -- Body practices and practised masculinity -- Body-reflexive practices -- Conclusion -- 6 Inside and Outside the Ring -- Visible bodies -- Boxing films -- Boxing affects and sensations -- A Bloody Canvas : Making a film -- Conclusion -- 7 Transforming the Fight Game -- Playing by the rules -- Everyday in the gym -- Promoting diversity in sport -- Women fight back -- Women boxing London 2012: Lead-up and legacy -- Boxing and culture: Culture and boxing -- Conclusion -- 8 Conclusion: G/local Boxing -- Boxing and the g/local -- Boxing rules -- Boxing masculinities -- Inner worlds and outer worlds -- Bodies enfleshed selves.