
Body & Soul
About this book
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.
Subjects
Boxers (sports)Self-actualization (psychology)BoxingSportsInner citiesUrban SociologyMasculinity in popular culture