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Boxing, Masculinity and Identity Boxing, Masculinity and Identity Boxing, with its extremes of violence and beauty, discipline and excess, has always been a source of inspiration for writers and filmmakers. Permeated by ideas of masculinity, power, ‘race’ and social class, boxing is an ideal site for the exploration of key contemporary themes in the social sciences. Boxing, Masculinity and Identity: The ‘I’ of the Tiger explores the changing sociology of identity – especially gender identity and the meaning of masculinity – through the sport and art of boxing. Drawing on ethnographic research as well as material from film, literature and journalism, the book takes in the broad cultural and social terrain of boxing. It considers the experience and understanding of: • Masculinity and gendered identities. • Physical embodiment: mind, body and the construction of identity. • Spectacle and performance: links between public and personal social worlds. • Boxing on film: the role of cultural representation and spectatorship. • Methodologies: issues of authenticity and ‘reality’ in the social sciences. Boxing, Masculinity and Identity will be of great interest to those following courses in sociology, sport, gender studies and cultural studies. Kath Woodward is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Open University, UK, and a member of the Economic and Social Research Council’s Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC). Boxing, Masculinity and Identity The ‘I’ of the Tiger Kath Woodward I~ ~~o~!!~n~~~up LONDON AND NEW YORK First published 2007 by Routledge Published 2017 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business Copyright © 2007 Kath Woodward Typeset in Goudy by Keystroke, 28 High Street, Tettenhall, Wolverhampton The Open Access version of this book, available at www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution- Non Commercial- No D erivatives 4.0 license British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Woodward, Kath. Boxing, masculinity and identity: the “I” of the tiger / Kath Woodward. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Sports–Sociological aspects. 2. Boxing–Social aspects. 3. Gender identity. 4. Masculinity. I. Title. GV706.5.W66 2006 796.83–dc22 2006016938 ISBN 13: 978–0–415–36770–7 (hbk) ISBN 13: 978–0–415–36771–4 (pbk) Contents List of figures vii Dedication ix Acknowledgements x 1 Introduction 1 2 Masculinity on the ropes? Boxing and gender identities 10 Introduction 10 Gender identities: masculinities 11 Identities, concepts and formulations 15 Boxing: histories and meanings 23 Conclusion 37 3 Outside in, inside out: routine masculinities 39 Introduction: knowing boxing masculinities 39 Producing knowledge: methodologies 44 Public spaces: personal spaces 48 Conclusion 60 4 Boxing bodies and embodied masculinities 63 Introduction 63 Beautiful bodies: broken bodies 64 Embodied identities 68 Boxing embodiment: I am my body 75 Body practices and practised masculinity 85 Conclusion 88 5 Public stories, personal stories: heroes, celebrity and spectacle 91 Introduction 91 The ring as frame 92 Women: now you see them, now you don’t 95 vi Contents Heroes and legends 98 Boxing as carnival 107 Spectacles of violence 114 Excess and the unconscious 115 Conclusion 118 6 When the going gets tough: going to the movies 121 Introduction 121 Out of the ring and into the mainstream 124 Representation, film and fantasy 126 Heroic narratives 137 Watching the films: can you take it? 146 Conclusion 148 7 Conclusion: I could have been a contender 151 Introduction 151 Pre-emptive masculinities 154 Routine masculinities 156 Conclusion 157 Bibliography 159 Index 168 Figures 3.1 ‘Rumble in the Jungle’ 57 4.1 Broken body: Gerald McClellan in Benn versus McClellan, 1995 66 5.1 The ring as frame, Kinshasa, 1974 92 5.2 Laila Ali in action, 2003 96 5.3 Amir Khan at the 2004 Olympics with his father 104 5.4 Tyson leaving court, again, 2004 110 5.5 Magic shows: ‘Prince’ Naseem Hamed on the magic carpet 113 6.1 Stallone is Rocky 132 6.2 Robert de Niro in Raging Bull 135 6.3 Clint Eastwood at the Oscars 139 6.4 Hilary Swank at the Oscars 140 Dedication For Steve, Richard, Tamsin, Jack and Sophie and my sister Sarah. For HP who introduced me to boxing and for Col who loved sport. For Sam who died while I was writing this book. Acknowledgements Copyright for all the images, Empics, Nottingham. Thanks to Sylvia Lay-Flurrie and Margaret Marchant for all their help with the final typing and getting the book sent off and to Gill Gibson and Lewis Summers of Rotherham Library for their help chasing books and films. I have benefited enormously from discussions with my colleagues in Open University research groups. I am grateful to Raia Prokhovnik and the Feminist Reading Group for the many stimulating discussions about developments in feminist work and to the psycho-social research group, Wendy Hollway, Peter Redman, Margie Wetherell and Joanne Whitehouse-Hart. Thanks to Brendan Ingle and all the boxers who talked to me and let me watch them training at the gym in Sheffield. Chapter 1 Introduction There is a moment in Ron Howard’s 2005 film of the life of the boxer James Braddock, Cinderella Man, which stars Russell Crowe as Braddock when Crowe walks into the ring for the final climactic fight, and the entire arena, packed with extras – thousands of them – falls silent. This total silence, in such a place and at such a time, is eerie, almost dream-like. And you realise that the dreams of every single person at that moment are riding on this man. That’s the power of film and the performance and, ultimately the power of the game. (Horowitz, 2005: 3) This is a moment of identification with a boxing hero. Boxing still has the power to draw in its audiences as well its participants, because the sport and its stories feed dreams and aspirations of success. This moment is about more than the ‘thrill of the fight’ as the Rocky II theme song, ‘The Eye of the Tiger’, goes. It is also about the ‘will to survive’. The audience is bound up with the fortunes of Braddock: the white, working-class hero who is taking his chance in the ring, pursuing a path of honour in order to provide for his family. This statement points not only to the power of film, but also to the power of boxing and in particular boxing heroes, especially male heroes. Fantasy and reality are entwined in the construction of such heroic figures. The audience is implicated in the film’s narrative struc- ture framed around the justice of Braddock’s plight and moral course which his actions represent. Whatever the economic and social constraints, this boxing hero seeks to shape his own identity. Those watching buy into this assumed agency and desperately want him to fulfil his dreams. This is a moment in which multiple aspects of identification are condensed. The draw of the fight and the projection of the audience’s desires onto the central character combine the psychic investments that people make with the social and cultural meanings about identity that are produced by texts such as films. Of course, this moment is cinematic and not an actual fight. Real fights are not the sanitized drama of Hollywood. Boxing aficionados are keen to argue that boxing is ‘real’, it is not a drama (Oates, 1987), but it is a major argument of this book that fantasy 2 Introduction and reality are inextricably combined. Public stories, symbolic representations, unconscious desires and anxieties and embodied experience and iterative practices are all constitutive of identity. The mechanisms in play at such moments as represented in Cinderella Man and more widely, for example in the more routine, everyday practices through which identities are reconstituted and the investments in such heroic (and not-so-heroic) figures of masculinity are what this book is about. Such boxing moments present a means of exploring the interrela- tionship between psychic and social dimensions of identity and, more specifically, of understanding the making and re-making of masculinities. These processes of identification, whether of boxers themselves, the audience of such films and spectators of the sport itself and those who buy into its culture, are not straightforward. The film narrative of Cinderella Man and the real-life biography of its hero may be a simple story of good and evil and present an honourable route out of poverty and disadvantage, but the attraction of boxing and the pull of a heroism that depends on this version of masculinity are more puzzling. Boxing masculinities carry many of the features of traditional, hegemonic masculinity. It is a sport characterized by corporeal contact, courage, danger and in some cases violence, which might seem out of place in the contem- porary world of change and fragmentation and the emergence of more ambiguous, less traditional gender identities. One might also expect to find resistance to the challenge of new masculinities and strong ties to more traditional, gen- dered identities in boxing. This raises questions about how different identities can cohabit in a terrain of transformation. What is the relationship between contradictory versions of masculinity and how do they coexist? Sport is often characterized by gender divisions and inequalities and hence polarized gender identities. There is a tension between the increased opportunities offered by sport and resistance to change, although sport remains a site of resistance, espe- cially in terms of transforming masculinities (Messner, 2002). Such tensions are highlighted in boxing. Boxing is still something of an anomaly in a world of transforming gender relations and the emergence of greater social inclusion and equality in social relations based on gender, ‘race’, ‘ethnicity’, sexuality and dis/ability.
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