Ultimate fighting and embodiment : violence, gender, and mixed martial arts / / Dale C. Spencer
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| Autore: |
Spencer Dale C.
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| Titolo: |
Ultimate fighting and embodiment : violence, gender, and mixed martial arts / / Dale C. Spencer
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (207 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 796.815/5 |
| Soggetto topico: | Mixed martial arts - Social aspects |
| Mixed martial arts - Psychological aspects | |
| Sports - Sex differences | |
| Sports - Social aspects | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front Cover; Ultimate Fighting and Embodiment; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Phenomenology and Bodies; 3. Time, Space, and Sense of Fighting; 4. Difference and Bodies; 5. Being an MMA Fighter; 6. Habit(us), Body Techniques, and Body Callusing; 7. Narratives of Despair, Loss, and Failure: Pain, Injury, and Masculinities; 8. Emotions and Violence; 9. Homosociality, (Homo)eroticism, and Dueling Practice; 10. Conclusion; About the Biography; Glossary of Terms; Appendix: The Senses and Ethnographic Research; Notes; References; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Mixed martial arts (MMA) is an emergent sport where competitors in a ring or cage utilize strikes (punches, kicks, elbows and knees) as well as submission techniques to defeat opponents. This book explores the carnal experience of fighting through a sensory ethnography of MMA, and how it transgresses the cultural scripts of masculinity in popular culture. Based on four years of participant observation in a local MMA club and in-depth interviews with amateur and professional MMA fighters, Spencer documents fighters' training regimes and the meanings they attach to participation in the sport. Dr |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Ultimate fighting and embodiment |
| ISBN: | 1-136-49915-6 |
| 1-136-49916-4 | |
| 0-203-14291-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910779036003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Routledge research in sport, culture and society ; ; 11.