Ultimate Fighting and Embodiment: Violence, Gender and Mixed Martial Arts

By Dale C. Spencer

Drawing on the theories of Merleau-Ponty and Jean-Luc Nancy, this study develops a body-centered epistemology as the grounding for a participant-observer ethnography of "ultimate fighting" or "mixed martial arts." It explores the gendered and racialized forms that embodiment takes in this context, considering how the co-mingling of male bodies transgresses the cultural scripts of masculinity in popular culture, and examining how the rigors of mixed martial arts reveal the potentialities of bodies.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415719550
• ISBN13: 9780415719551
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"