Hanging out and hanging about: Insider/outsider research in the sport of boxing

Ethnography

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 536-560

  Woodward, Kath ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'Insider'; 'Outsider'; Boxing; Embodiment; Gender; Lived bodies; Masculinities; Situated knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 57149146044     PISSN: 14661381     EISSN: 17412714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1466138108096991     Document Type: Article

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