Description: Come Out Swinging : The Changing World of Boxing in Gleason's Gym, Hardcover by Trimbur, Lucia, ISBN 069115029X, ISBN-13 9780691150291, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Gleason's Gym is a Brooklyn institution that over the course of 40 years has experienced tremendous change, developing from a site that had been the exclusive space of poor and working-class men of color active in competitive boxing and others involved in the sport such as managers, promoters, and sportswriters to a place that has come to welcome white-collar and female clients even as it struggles to maintain the ideals of a working-class male sanctuary within the rapidly gentrifying neighborhood of DUMBO. Trimbur (sociology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City U. of New York) presents an ethnographic examination of the social practices, social relations, and relations of power in Gleason's Gym. The analysis addresses such issues as the social values promoted by the gym outside of the market economy; how gym members and staff collectively make and mold the gym's social space within the context of life in postindustrial New York; different responses to the commodification of the boxing ethos of Gleason's; the ways some people use boxing training to respond to inequality such as gender subordination, anti-black racism, and class stratification; and the ways in which the wealthy use capital from new markets to forge identities and entertain themselves. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()
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Book Title: Come Out Swinging : The Changing World of Boxing in Gleason's Gym
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Name: Come Out Swinging : the Changing World of Boxing in Gleason's Gym
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Subject: Boxing, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Sociology / General, Physical Education, Customs & Traditions, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year: 2013
Item Height: 0.8 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 17 Oz
Author: Lucia Trimbur
Subject Area: Sports & Recreation, Social Science, Education, History
Item Length: 9.5 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
