"'No Tough Guys Here?': Hybrid Masculinity in a Boxing Gym". (April 2021)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- "'No Tough Guys Here?': Hybrid Masculinity in a Boxing Gym". (April 2021)
- Main Title:
- "'No Tough Guys Here?': Hybrid Masculinity in a Boxing Gym"
- Authors:
- Rabii, Watoii
- Abstract:
- In this article, I explore manifest and latent discourses about masculinity in a predominantly white, middle class boxing gym. In this gym, the owner and coaches promote a discourse that emphasizes love, bridgework, and sparring with care. This discourse is part of the gym's white-collar boxing culture. A key part of this discourse is distancing themselves from other gyms, claiming they promote a violent masculinity. While on the surface the gym criticizes certain ideals and practices associated with American hegemonic masculinity, it still reproduces discourses, norms, and practices associated with it. Employees use a latent discourse that constructs a hybrid masculinity. I argue that employees and members construct a hybrid masculinity by perpetuating ideals and practices associated with American hegemonic masculinity.
- Is Part Of:
- Journal of contemporary ethnography. Volume 50:Number 2(2021)
- Journal:
- Journal of contemporary ethnography
- Issue:
- Volume 50:Number 2(2021)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 50, Issue 2 (2021)
- Year:
- 2021
- Volume:
- 50
- Issue:
- 2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2021-0050-0002-0000
- Page Start:
- 231
- Page End:
- 260
- Publication Date:
- 2021-04
- Subjects:
- hybrid masculinities -- white-collar boxing
Sociology, Urban -- Periodicals
Urban anthropology -- Periodicals
305.8 - Journal URLs:
- http://jce.sagepub.com/ ↗
http://www.sagepublications.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1177/0891241620985585 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0891-2416
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
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