What can learning to box reveal about masculinity?

As McBee trains for a charity boxing match at Madison Square Garden, he uses the ritualised violence of the sport to think through gender, fear, embodiment, trans identity, male socialisation, and the stories men inherit about power.

It is not a sports book, it is a book about becoming legible to others, and about the costs of that legibility; about what masculinity offers, what it threatens, and what it asks people to perform in exchange for belonging. A strong fit for readers interested in gender studies, memoir, trans writing, masculinity, embodiment, and the cultural theatre of violence.

Canongate paperback, 2019. Very good second-hand condition with light shelfwear and minor edge wear.