Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vi
3. Acknowledgments viii
4. Introduction: A Brief and Unnecessary Defense of Professional Wrestling 1
5. TheWorld of Wrestling 23
6. ‘‘Never Trust a Snake’’: wwf Wrestling as Masculine Melodrama 33
7. ‘‘Real Wrestling’’ / ‘‘Real’’ Life 67
8. The Hour of the Mask as Protagonist: El Santo versus the Skeptics on the Subject of Myth • 88
9. The Mask of the Luchador: Wrestling, Politics, and Identity in Mexico 96
10. Squaring the Family Circle: wwf Smackdown Assaults the Social Body 132
11. ‘‘Ladies LoveWrestling, Too’’: FemaleWrestling Fans Online 167
12. The ‘‘Logic’’ of Professional Wrestling 192
13. Is raw War? Professional Wrestling as Popular s/m Narrative 213
14. Not Quite Heroes: Race, Masculinity, and Latino Professional Wrestlers 232
15. Trading in Masculinity: Muscles, Money, and Market Discourse in the wwf 260
16. Afterword, Part I: Wrestling with Theory, Grappling with Politics 295
17. Afterword, Part II: Growing up and Growing More Risqué 317
18. Glossary 343
19. Contributors 345
20. Index 347