The Discourse of Dog Fighting.
In this essay, we discuss dog fighting as a blood sport with a history embedded in the status-driven display of masculinity, power and violence. Based on published reports and interviews with those living and working in dog fighting neighborhoods. we show that the contemporary cultural knowledge of...
| Publicado en: | Humanity & Society Vol. 31; no. 4; pp. 319 - 334 |
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Association for Humanist Sociology
November 2007
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