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Fighting for Recognition: Identity, Masculinity, and the Act of Violence in Professional Wrestling - Couverture souple

Smith, R. Tyson

 
9780822357223: Fighting for Recognition: Identity, Masculinity, and the Act of Violence in Professional Wrestling
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0822357224 ISBN 13 : 9780822357223
Editeur : Duke University Press, 2014

Synopsis

In Fighting for Recognition, R. Tyson Smith enters the world of independent professional wrestling, a community-based entertainment staged in community centers, high school gyms, and other modest venues. Like the big-name, televised pro wrestlers who originally inspired them, indie wrestlers engage in choreographed fights in character. Smith details the experiences, meanings, and motivations of the young men who wrestle as "Lethal" or "Southern Bad Boy," despite receiving little to no pay and risking the possibility of serious and sometimes permanent injury. Exploring intertwined issues of gender, class, violence, and the body, he sheds new light on the changing sources of identity in a postindustrial society that increasingly features low wages, insecure employment, and fragmented social support. Smith uncovers the tensions between strength and vulnerability, pain and solidarity, and homophobia and homoeroticism that play out both backstage and in the ring as the wrestlers seek recognition from fellow performers and devoted fans.

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À propos de l'auteur

R. Tyson Smith is Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at Brown University.

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Éditeur
Duke University Press
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0822357224
ISBN 13 
9780822357223
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
240
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