Making European Masculinities: Sport, Europe, Gender

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Psychology Press, 2000 - 201 pages
As sport has grown, progressively replacing religion, in its power to excite passion, provide emotional escape, offer fraternal (and increasingly sororital) bonding, it has come to loom larger and larger in the lives of Europeans and others. It has become an inescapable reality linking public environment with intimate experience and thus offers the historian an opportunity to inspect and attempt to grasp all the dimensions of the recent past and their relative share in individual and collective experience. This collection considers the evolution of modern sport in Europe and examines its role in shaping masculine identity.

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With spirits masculine J A Mangan
1
NineteenthCentury
40
Ollerup Danish
140
PreTotalitarian Totalitarian and PostTotalitarian
160
What Man has made of Man J A Mangan
185
Notes on Contributors
189
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