Boxers, Briefs or Bras? Bodies, Gender and Change in the Boxing Gym

Body and Society

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 82-109

  Paradis, Elise ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bodies; Bourdieu; boxing; gender; habitus; social change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861780042     PISSN: 1357034X     EISSN: 14603632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1357034X12440829     Document Type: Article

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