Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Boxing
- The Cambridge Companion to Boxing
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Chronology
- Introduction: The Last Sport Standing
- 1 Boxing in the Ancient World
- 2 The Bare-Knuckle Era
- 3 Jem Mace and the Making of Modern Boxing
- 4 Race and Boxing in the Nineteenth Century
- 5 Joe Gans and His Contemporaries
- 6 Harry Greb, Gene Tunney, Jack Dempsey, and the Roaring Twenties
- 7 Prime (and Crime) Time: Boxing in the 1950s
- 8 The Africans: Boxing and Africa
- 9 A Century of Fighting Latinos: From the Margins to the Mainstream
- 10 Women’s Boxing: Bout Time
- 11 Jews in Twentieth-Century Boxing
- 12 A Surprising Dearth of Top English-born Jewish Fighters in the Bare-Knuckle Era
- 13 Joe Louis: “You Should Have Seen Him Then”
- 14 Sugar Ray Robinson’s Furious Beauty
- 15 Echoes from the Jungle: Muhammad Ali in the Early 1970s
- 16 The Unusable Champions: Sonny Liston (1962–1964) and Larry Holmes (1978–1985)
- 17 Emile Griffith: An Underrated Champion
- 18 Pierce Egan, Boxing, and British Nationalism
- 19 Jose Torres: The Boxer as Writer
- 20 “Well, What Was it Really Like?” George Plimpton, Norman Mailer, and the Heavyweights1
- 21 Jack London and the Great White Hopes of Boxing Literature
- 22 Body and Soul of the Screen Boxer
- 23 Black Slaver: Jack Johnson and the Mann Act
- 24 Yesternow: Jack Johnson, Documentary Film, and the Politics of Jazz
- 25 Opera in the Ring
- 26 The Voice of Boxing: A Brief History of American Broadcasting Ringside
- 27 Ralph Wiley’s Surprising Serenity
- 28 Muhammad Ali: King of the Inauthentic
- Index
- References
10 - Women’s Boxing: Bout Time
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Boxing
- The Cambridge Companion to Boxing
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Chronology
- Introduction: The Last Sport Standing
- 1 Boxing in the Ancient World
- 2 The Bare-Knuckle Era
- 3 Jem Mace and the Making of Modern Boxing
- 4 Race and Boxing in the Nineteenth Century
- 5 Joe Gans and His Contemporaries
- 6 Harry Greb, Gene Tunney, Jack Dempsey, and the Roaring Twenties
- 7 Prime (and Crime) Time: Boxing in the 1950s
- 8 The Africans: Boxing and Africa
- 9 A Century of Fighting Latinos: From the Margins to the Mainstream
- 10 Women’s Boxing: Bout Time
- 11 Jews in Twentieth-Century Boxing
- 12 A Surprising Dearth of Top English-born Jewish Fighters in the Bare-Knuckle Era
- 13 Joe Louis: “You Should Have Seen Him Then”
- 14 Sugar Ray Robinson’s Furious Beauty
- 15 Echoes from the Jungle: Muhammad Ali in the Early 1970s
- 16 The Unusable Champions: Sonny Liston (1962–1964) and Larry Holmes (1978–1985)
- 17 Emile Griffith: An Underrated Champion
- 18 Pierce Egan, Boxing, and British Nationalism
- 19 Jose Torres: The Boxer as Writer
- 20 “Well, What Was it Really Like?” George Plimpton, Norman Mailer, and the Heavyweights1
- 21 Jack London and the Great White Hopes of Boxing Literature
- 22 Body and Soul of the Screen Boxer
- 23 Black Slaver: Jack Johnson and the Mann Act
- 24 Yesternow: Jack Johnson, Documentary Film, and the Politics of Jazz
- 25 Opera in the Ring
- 26 The Voice of Boxing: A Brief History of American Broadcasting Ringside
- 27 Ralph Wiley’s Surprising Serenity
- 28 Muhammad Ali: King of the Inauthentic
- Index
- References
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