Masculine Sports and “Respectable” Men in Working-Class Neighborhoods

Carine Guérandel & translated by Oliver Waine — 2019-03-12T06:00:00Z

In a work rich in ethnographic material, Akim Oualhaci questions how socialization through sports contributes to the reconfiguration of masculinities in working-class neighborhoods in France and the United States.
Studies on the social construction of masculinities—a quite recent but very productive field of research—often focuses on the world of sports, considered an effective space for gender-based socialization. Akim Oualhaci's book is a continuation of this work and specifically analyzes

- Debates / sport, working classes, working-class identity, working-class neighborhoods, social class, ethnography, youth, masculinity, gender, socialization, suburbs, banlieue, ghetto, Paris region, New York, France, United States

Parallel Lives? Elena Ferrante's Naples and My West New Rochelle

Bella Mirabella — 2016-01-26T06:00:00Z

Elena Ferrante's acclaimed Neapolitan novels, which trace the lives of two girls born in a working class district in Naples, Italy in 1944, can be read as a meditation on the role of the neighborhood in shaping class, gender and ethnic identity. In this essay, Italian-American scholar Bella Mirabella reflects on her own community of origin, West New Rochelle, New York, in light of the resonances she encountered reading Ferrante's books.
Elena Ferrante's four Neapolitan novels (My Brilliant

- Essays / United States, Italy, New York, neighborhood, working classes, working-class identity, Ferrante, Neapolitan novels

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Masculine Sports and “Respectable” Men in Working-Class Neighborhoods

Parallel Lives? Elena Ferrante's Naples and My West New Rochelle