Boxing [ Games & Sports ]
… was progressively presented as a sociable entertainment, a disciplined pastime, that allowed the cultivation of manly virtues. To legitimize boxing, various discourses shaped it as a science and as an art in the context of the … was progressively presented as a sociable entertainment, a disciplined pastime, that allowed the cultivation of manly virtues. To legitimize boxing, various discourses shaped it as a science and as an art in the context of the … and distorted the meaning of courage: ‘[…] let not the infamy of boxing prostitute longer the name of courage, that is a virtue of the mind, and does not exist in gigantic form, or muscular power, else the ox and the ass would claim a …
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