The Rites of Men : : Manhood, Politics, and the Culture of Sport / / Varda Burstyn.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Burstyn, Varda,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (528 p.)

It gathers more spectators on a global basis than any other activity today, yet sport is widely regarded as being outside dominant political and social systems. Varda Burstyn challenges this view, showing not only that sport generates an elitist, masculinist account of power and social order, but that it is central to the constitution of political power in contemporary life.Burstyn begins by describing the emergence of sport as a masculinist secular religion by the close of the last century. Today, she argues, masculine dominance continues to be constructed and promoted by the multibillion-dollar nexus that has harnessed sport as the consummate sales agent. She goes on to show that the super-aggressive ideal of manhood, as practised, modelled, and animated through the culture of sport, has profound social and political consequences.Combining some of the best insights of feminist theory with the perspectives of history, political science, economics, psychology, sociology, and cultural criticism, this book brings a new dimension to sport as a subject for serious scholarship.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Societies, Bodies, and Ideologies: Terms and Approaches -- 2. To Raise the Wolf in a Man's Heart' Sport and Men's Culture in the Nineteenth Century -- 3. Taming the Beast': Sport, Masculinity, and Sexuality in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- 4. Delivering the Male: Sport Culture, the Mass Media, and the Masculinity Market -- 5. Spectacle, Commerce, and Bodies: Three Facets of Hypergender in the Sport Nexus -- 6. 'Hit, Crunch, and Burn': Organized Violence and Men's Sport -- 7. 'Hooligans, Studs, and Queers': Three Studies in the Reproduction of Hypermasculinity -- 8. High Performance: Drugs, Politics, and Profit in Sport -- 9. Re-creating Recreation: Sport and Social Change -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index