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Ned Polsky is associate professor of sociology at the Stony Brook campus of the State University of New York. He is former editor of Social Problems. This article is adapted from the chapter, “Of Pool Playing and Poolrooms” in Ned Polsky’s book Hustlers, Beats, and Others to be published by the Aldine Publishing Company of Chicago. (Copyright 1967, not to be reprinted without permission of Aldine.)
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Polsky, N. Poolrooms: End of the male sanctuary. Trans-action 4, 32–40 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03180836
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