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Fight sports and American masculinity : salvation in violence from 1607 to the present / Christopher David Thrasher.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thrasher, Christopher David, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hand-to-hand fighting--United States.
- Hand-to-hand fighting.
- Mixed martial arts--United States.
- Mixed martial arts.
- Masculinity--United States--History.
- Masculinity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (300 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Throughout America's past, some men have feared the descent of their gender into effeminacy, and turned their eyes to the ring in hopes of salvation. This work explains how the dominant fight sports in the United States have changed over time in response to broad shifts in American culture and ideals of manhood, and presents a narrative of American history as seen from the bars, gyms, stadiums and living rooms of the heartland. Ordinary Americans were the agents who supported and participated in fight sports and determined its vision of masculinity. This work counters the economic determinism
- Contents:
- Cover; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction: Global Fight Sports from Prehistory to 1607; I. "To Cut Out the Tongue or Pull Out the Eyes": Fight Sports in the Americas, 1607-1810; II. "A Boxing We Will Go": Boxing Takes Root in the United States, 1810-1915; III. "With the Energy of a Trip- Hammer and the Vehemence of a Sioux": Asian Martial Arts Come to the United States, 1850-1941; IV. "We Live in Our Heroes": Boxing Reigns Supreme in the United States, 1915-1941
- V. "Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting": Asian Martial Arts Gain Unprecedented Popularity in the United States, 1941-1981VI. "We Shall Not Stand by Helplessly": The Birth of Mixed Martial Arts, 1981 to the Present; Chapter Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 29, 2015).
- ISBN:
- 1-4766-1823-2
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