Steel chair to the head : the pleasure and pain of professional wrestling /
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| Imprint: | Durham : Duke University Press, 2005. |
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| Description: | 365 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5600934 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A Brief and Unnecessary Defense of Professional Wrestling
- The World of Wrestling
- "Never Trust a Snake": WWF Wrestling as Masculine Melodrama
- "Real Wrestling"/ "Real" Life
- The Hour of the Mask as Protagonist: El Santo versus the Skeptics on the Subject of Myth
- The Mask of the Luchador: Wrestling, Politics, and Identity in Mexico
- Squaring the Family Circle: WWF Smackdown Assaults the Social Body
- "Ladies Love Wrestling, Too": Female Wrestling Fans Online
- The "Logic" of Professional Wrestling
- Is RAW War? Professional Wrestling as Popular S/M Narrative
- Not Quite Heroes: Race, Masculinity, and Latino Professional Wrestlers
- Trading in Masculinity: Muscles, Money and Market Discourse in the WWF
- Afterword, Part II: Growing up and Growing More Risqué
- Glossary
- Contributors
- Index
