“Boxing: a cultural history” by Kasia Boddy
“Boddy intelligently takes up-via art, literature, film, and the media-the many issues that have historically veined the sport: ”nationality, class, race, ethnicity, religion, politics, and different versions of masculinity,” plus dialectics like ”brawn versus brains, boastfulness versus modesty, youth versus experience.” Her reach is considerable, but so is [...]
Entries from February 2009
February 17, 2009
Books of the Week – 2/16/09
February 9, 2009
Books of the Week – 2/9/09
“Hooking Up: Sex, Dating, and Relationships on Campus” by Kathleen A. Bogle
“Hooking Up is a welcome, empirical addition that informs all readers of the collegiate state of affairssexual and otherwise. It will be of particular interest to scholars in the fields of gender, sexuality, family, relationships, and higher education.”
—Rachel Kalish, Gender & Society
For additionl [...]
February 2, 2009
Books of the Week – 2/2/09
John Palfrey and Urs Gasser – Born Digital
From Publishers Weekly:
In this critical but optimistic overview, academics Palfrey (of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society) and Gasser (of the Swiss U. of St. Gallen) share their concern about the legal and social ramifications of the Internet with regard to the generation of “Digital Natives” born [...]
