The manly art : bare-knuckle prize fighting in America / Elliott J. Gorn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gorn, Elliott J., 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boxing--United States.

Boxing.

Boxing matches--United States--History.

Boxing matches.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 p.)

Edition:

Updated ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Elliott J. Gorn's The Manly Art tells the story of boxing's origins and the sport's place in American culture. When first published in 1986, the book helped shape the ways historians write about American sport and culture, expanding scholarly boundaries by exploring masculinity as an historical subject and by suggesting that social categories like gender, class, and ethnicity can be understood only in relation to each other.This updated edition of Gorn's highly influential history of the early prize rings features a new afterword, the author's meditation on the ways in which studies of sport, gender, and popular culture have changed in the quarter century since the book was first published. An up-to-date bibliography ensures that The Manly Art will remain a vital resource for a new generation.

Contents:

Prologue: The English prize ring

Hats in the ring

The first American champions

The age of heroes

The meanings of prize fighting

Triumph and decline

"Fight like a gentleman, you son of a bitch, if you can"

The end of the bare-knuckle era

Epilogue: The manly art

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-317) and index.

ISBN:

9780801462528

0801462525

9780801462535

0801462533

OCLC:

797829102