The Rites of Men : : Manhood, Politics, and the Culture of Sport / / Varda Burstyn.
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 th...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (528 p.) |
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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