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Fight Studies

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"Fight Studies" is an academic discipline that views The Fight as a lens through which to examine contemporary society. It is an interdisciplanary subject, including perspectives from political science, sociology, psychology, economics, history, criminology, labour studies and philosophy.

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[edit] Description

The discipline is typically seen as beginning with the publication in 1975 of Wilton Rowley's The Fight, which analyzed The Fight as a social control mechanism that allows for the safe channelling of aggressive behaviour away from mainstream society. Though the Fight had been around for over a century at this point, Dr. Rowley's work was the first major, focused academic study of The Fight. He continued his analysis in his later works Men Who Fight (1977) and Inside The Fence (1980), a memoir of his victory in the 1978 Fight.

The success of The Fight, both critically and commercially, led to a sudden surge of interest in the academic study of The Fight. Several theorists took Dr. Rowley's ideas further, exploring the idea of The Fight as a "control valve" used to keep dangerous lower-class aspirations in check. Others studied it from an economic viewpoint, attempting to determine what role The Fight might have in the efficient regulation of a market economy. Feminist thinkers also began to consider The Fight as a mirror to traditional concepts of masculinity, and the need of patriarchical society to keep women passive, and hence, largely out of The Fight.

Fight Studies as a discipline encompasses a wind range of perspectives, and many different and competing intellectual tools. As such, it can be properly considered a discipline shaped by a common subject, rather than a common method.

The Great Outdoor Fight Museum has become a cornerstone of research and scholarship into Fight Studies.

[edit] Major Works In Fight Studies

[edit] Nonfiction

Standard reference works in Fight Studies. Most are multidisciplinary, looking at the Fight through the lens of alternate disciplines such as sociology, psychology, or economics.

  • Barager, Ian, "Watch Them Devour Each Other - The Fight As Upper-Class Sideshow," Sociology In Practice, Winter 1991
  • Brown, Harold, The Great Outdoor Fight: Compiled Statistics 1851-1983 (Vols. I-XXIII). Oxford University Press USA, New York, NY 1987.
    • ibid. The Great Outdoor Fight: Compiled Statistics 1984-1995 (Vols. XXIV-XXX). Oxford University Press USA, New York, NY 1999
    • ibid. The Great Outdoor Fight: Revised and Reconciled Statistics and Annotations 1851-1995 (Vols. I-XI). Oxford University Press USA, New York NY. 2004
  • Dyck, Wilfredo, Battles At The Margins: The Great Outdoor Fight and Economic Health. Heritage Institute Press, Washington, D.C. 1982
  • Eggbert, Vance, "They Did What, Mister?! Using the Fight as Motivational Pedogogy in the Post-Internet Classroom," T.H.E. Journal, March 2004.
  • Found, Maria, "Ballistics in Ballet: A Mathematical Reconstruction of Rodney's Beerbottle Spiral," Mathematics in Theory and Practice, Spring 1994
  • Giles, Walker and Smythe, P. "Vicious Pattern: Trends in Occupational and Physical Therapy in Post-Great American Fight Combatants," American Journal of Sports Medicine, April 1981)
  • Martin, Inga, "Their Bodies, Our Selves: Understanding Gender in the Great Outdoor Fight," New England Journal of Feminist Studies, April 1978.
  • Marx, Greil, The Best Opiate: The Great Outdoor Fight In Industrial Society. Stanford University Press, Cupertino, CA 1978
  • Rifkin, Ray, "Virtual Violence: The Fight In A Posthuman Age," Studies of Tomorrow #4, 1999
  • Rowley, Wilton, The Fight. Greymark Press, New York, NY 1975
    • ibid. Men Who Fight, Greymark Press, New York, NY 1977
  • Sheehy, Jennie, Honour In Blood?- A Critical Look At The Great Outdoor Fight and Violence Against Women, Random House, New York, NY 1996
  • Turner, Marc, "A Place To Put Them: Violent Psychosis In The Fight and Everywhere," American Journal of Psychology, Fall 1988.
  • White, Cy, "To Beat On The Boss: Working-Class Liberation In The Fight." Workplace Life #32, February 1986.

[edit] Autobiographical, Biographical or Fictionalized Accounts

While the following are less formal studies of the fight and more first hand or fictionalized accounts of the Fight, they are considered effective primary sources and are often used as evidence in Fight Studies.

  • Eggbert, Vance, Beyond the First Gate. Scribner & Sons, New York, NY 2004
  • Mcelroy, Samual, The Fight Diary of Samual Mcelroy. Macintire Press, Boston, MA 1856
  • Rowley, Wilton, Inside The Fence. Greymark Press, New York, NY 1980

[edit] The Twenty-Three Skidoos Biographies

After the passing of his father Bigger Bill Kayser in 1978, Jude Kayser has set about writing bigraphical works about each of the members of the Twenty-Three Skidoos. The works he has finished to date are listed below.

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