The Manly Art: Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America
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The Updated Edition
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.
ISBN
9780801476082
Publication Date
4-15-2010
Publisher
Cornell University Press
City
Ithaca, USA
Keywords
Boxing, sports, Boxing matches, Boxers, Athletes, Masculinity, popular culture
Disciplines
History | Social History | United States History
Recommended Citation
Gorn, Elliot, "The Manly Art: Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America" (2010). Faculty Books. 257.
https://ecommons.luc.edu/facultybooks/257
