Body & soul
Subtitle: notebooks of an apprentice boxer
By: Loïc Wacquant
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Boxing -- Social aspects -- Illinois -- Chicago; Sports -- United States -- Anthropological aspects; Inner cities -- United States; Sociology, Urban -- United States; Masculinity in popular culture -- United States
Other titles: Body and soul
Work titles: Corps et âme.
Description: In the late 1980s Wacquant, a white, French-born, French and American sociology graduate student, entered the Woodlawn gym on 63rd Street in Chicago and began training as a boxer. This text invites us to follow Wacquant's immersion into the everyday world of Chicago's boxers.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: The street and the ring; title: An island of order and virtue; title: "The boys who beat the street"; title: A scientifically savage practice; title: The social logic of sparring; title: An implicit and collective pedagogy; title: Managing bodily capital; title: Fight night at Studio 104; title: "You scared I might mess up 'cause you done messed up"; title: Weigh-in at the Illinois state building; title: An anxious afternoon; title: Welcome to Studio 104; title: Pitiful preliminaries; title: Strong beats Hannah by TKO in the fourth; title: Make way for the exotic dancers; title: "You stop two more guys and I'll stop drinkin'"; title: Busy Louise at the Golden Gloves