Unleashing Manhood in the Cage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Unleashing Manhood in the Cage write by Christian A. Vaccaro. This book was released on 2015-11-11. Unleashing Manhood in the Cage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Unleashing Manhood in the Cage: Masculinity and Mixed Martial Arts addresses the question “Why do mixed martial arts participants endure grueling workouts and suffer through injury, with little or no pay, just to compete?” The answer is because the participants enjoy a form of idolization from their supporters, each other, and culture more generally, which is linked to masculinity. In fact, MMA organizers, from the very beginning, purposefully created elements of the sport that are linked to dominant narratives about manhood. In this context, men don thin open-fingered gloves, lock themselves in a caged enclosure, and slug it out in a fight with few rules to see who comes out on top. This all occurs while “ring girls” in high-heels and skin-tight shirts and shorts stride around outside the cage holding signs and peddling t-shirts. The sum of these elements is the creation of a type of a publicly accessible and consumable form of masculinity. The sport of mixed martial arts is a rich and intriguing space where the construction of gender can be explored through a sociological and ethnographic lens.
The Professor in the Cage
The Professor in the Cage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Professor in the Cage write by Jonathan Gottschall. This book was released on 2016-03-15. The Professor in the Cage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "When a mixed martial arts (MMA) gym moves in across the street from his office, Jonathan Gottschall sees a challenge, and an opportunity. Pushing forty, out of shape, and disenchanted with his job as an adjunct English professor, part of him yearns to cross the street and join up. The other part is terrified. Gottschall eventually works up his nerve, and starts training for a real cage fight. He's fighting not only as a personal test but also to answer questions that have intrigued him for years: Why do men fight? And why do so many seemingly decent people like to watch?"--Amazon.com.
Pop Culture Matters
Pop Culture Matters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pop Culture Matters write by Martin F. Norden. This book was released on 2019-03-05. Pop Culture Matters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We immerse ourselves daily in expressions of popular culture—YouTube videos, hip hop music, movies, adverts, greeting cards, videogames, and comics, to name just a few possibilities—and far too often we pay only scant critical attention to them. The essays in this collection redress this situation by probing a wide range of topics within the field of popular culture studies. Written in engaging and jargon-free prose, contributions critically examine various offerings in film, television, social media, music, literature, sports, and related areas. Moreover, they often pay special attention to the ways in which these pop culture artefacts intersect with issues of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, and ability. Providing a rich mixture of broad perspectives and intriguing case studies, the essays form a compelling mosaic of findings and viewpoints on popular culture. Exploring everything from toxic masculinity in twenty-first century television programmes to gendered greeting cards and adult colouring books, this provocative volume is essential reading for anyone interested in that fabricated and all-pervasive environment we call popular culture.
Hate in the Homeland
Hate in the Homeland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hate in the Homeland write by Cynthia Miller-Idriss. This book was released on 2022-01-11. Hate in the Homeland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Hate in the Homeland" shows how tomorrow's far-right nationalists are being recruited in surprising places. Cynthia Miller-Idriss shows how far-right groups are swelling their ranks and developing their cultural, intellectual, and financial capacities in a variety of mainstream settings, from college campuses to YouTube cooking channels. Essential for understanding the tactics and underlying ideas of modern far-right extremism, this eye-opening book takes readers into the mainstream spaces where today's far right is engaging and ensnaring young people, and reveals innovative strategies we can use to combat extremist radicalization. -- From publisher's description.
Extreme Sports, Extreme Bodies
Extreme Sports, Extreme Bodies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Extreme Sports, Extreme Bodies write by Jesper Andreasson. This book was released on 2018-08-25. Extreme Sports, Extreme Bodies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book investigates extreme sports, defined as sports in which athletes challenge and transgress societal perceptions of what is humanly possible to achieve, in terms of physical training and bodily development/performance. Situated within a growing body of literature analysing the impact of new training trends on an individual’s body, identity, lifestyle and perception of his/her social surroundings, Extreme Sports, Extreme Bodies focuses on the gendered and embodied experiences of bodybuilding, Ironman triathlon, and mixed martial arts. Through their ethnographic analysis, Andreasson and Johansson present a unique and updated account of the increasing phenomenon of extreme sports and extreme bodies in contemporary Western society, grounded in the sociology of sport, body studies and embodiment literature.
