Come Out Swinging (eBook)

The Changing World of Boxing in Gleason's Gym

Lucia Trimbur (Autor)

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2013
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4606-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Lucia Trimbur is assistant professor of sociology at the City University of New York's John Jay College of Criminal Justice and at the CUNY Graduate Center.

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A nuanced insider's account of everyday life in the last remaining institution of New York's golden age of boxingGleason's Gym is the last remaining institution of New York's Golden Age of boxing. Jake LaMotta, Muhammad Ali, Hector Camacho, Mike Tyson-the alumni of Gleason's are a roster of boxing greats. Founded in the Bronx in 1937, Gleason's moved in the mid-1980s to what has since become one of New York's wealthiest residential areas-Brooklyn's DUMBO. Gleason's has also transformed, opening its doors to new members, particularly women and white-collar men. Come Out Swinging is Lucia Trimbur's nuanced insider's account of a place that was once the domain of poor and working-class men of color but is now shared by rich and poor, male and female, black and white, and young and old.Come Out Swinging chronicles the everyday world of the gym. Its diverse members train, fight, talk, and socialize together. We meet amateurs for whom boxing is a full-time, unpaid job. We get to know the trainers who act as their father figures and mentors. We are introduced to women who empower themselves physically and mentally. And we encounter the male urban professionals who pay handsomely to learn to box, and to access a form of masculinity missing from their office-bound lives. Ultimately, Come Out Swinging reveals how Gleason's meets the needs of a variety of people who, despite their differences, are connected through discipline and sport.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.8.2013
• Zusatzinfo: 10 halftones.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Kampfsport / Selbstverteidigung
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Accountability • Advertising • African Americans • Aggression • Amateur • Asceticism • black british • black people • Brad Pitt • Capitalism • Career • class conflict • Coaching • combat • commodification • Competition • Consumer Capitalism • Cosmopolitanism • Crime • Criminal Record • Cultural Capital • Determination • disadvantage • Donna Hylton • Economic Restructuring • Education • Employment • Entrepreneurship • Ernest Hemingway • ethnography • Exclusion • femininity • Funding • Gender identity • Gender Role • Gentrification • glove • Gym • Hazel Carby • Health club • Homelessness • Ideology • income • Jacques Derrida • Judith Butler • Kathy Boudin • kinship • laborer • Lumpenproletariat • Manliness (book) • Masculinity • Million Dollar Baby • Motherfucker • Multiculturalism • narrative • newspaper • Nuclear family • obstacle • Oppression • Pamela Smart • participant observation • Policy • Political Economy • Politician • Politics • popular culture • post-industrial society • Poverty • Primitivism • psychologist • Publication • Race (human categorization) • Racial segregation • Racism • Reputation • Requirement • salary • Saskia Sassen • Self-Image • self-justification • Service economy • Sexism • sexual harassment • Social Class • Social Exclusion • Social Inequality • Social Practice • social relation • Suffering • Technology • Training manual • treatise • Unemployment • Upper Class • USA Today • welfare • white supremacy • Working Class • Writing • Yale University
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4606-4 / 1400846064
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4606-1 / 9781400846061