Rumbles in the jungle: Boxing, racialization and the performance of masculinity

Leisure Studies

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 5-17

  Woodward, Kath ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENDER IDENTITY; RACE; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY; SPORT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 0842284371     PISSN: 02614367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0261436042000182281     Document Type: Article

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