Boxing, the Gym, and Men The Mark of the Fist /

• Main Author: Beauchez, Jérôme (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Cultural Sociology
• Subjects: Culture.; Sports-Sociological aspects.; Ethnography.; Sociology of Culture.; Sociology of Sport and Leisure.

This book explores the lived experiences of boxers in a French banlieue, largely populated by people from working-class and immigrant backgrounds. Jérôme Beauchez, who joined in the men's daily workouts for many years, analyzes the act of boxing as a high-stakes confrontation that extends wel...

Table of Contents:

• 1. The Stranger: Portrait of the Boxer as a Young Man
• 2. Incorporating the Novice: The Elementary Forms of the Boxing Experience
• 3. The Punching Factory: Boxers and Daily Life
• 4. When Boxers "Put on Gloves": Sparring and the Limits of the Fighter's Institutionalization
• 5. Counting the Blows: The Mark(s) of Exile
• 6. "Like a Man": Facing Adversity
• 7. Boxing vs. the "Poor Life"
• 8. The Clash of the Strongmen: Fighting in Public
• 9. Conclusion: A Boxer's Becoming: Encountered Lives. .