
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
Anthropological aspects of SportsBoxingInner citiesMasculinity in popular cultureSocial aspects of BoxingSportsUrban SociologySocial aspectsAnthropological aspectsSociology, urban