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Author Burstyn, Varda.

Title The rites of men : manhood, politics, and the culture of sport / Varda Burstyn.

Imprint Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 1999.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  306.483 B949r    ---  Available
Description xvi, 388 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Societies, bodies, and ideologies : terms and approaches -- 'To raise the wolf in a man's heart' : sport and men's culture in the nineteenth century -- 'Taming the beast' : sport, masculinity, and sexuality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- Delivering the male : sport culture, the mass media, and the masculinity market -- Spectacle, commerce, and bodies : three facets of hypergender in the sports nexus -- 'Hit, crunch, and burn' : organized violence and men's sport -- 'Hooligans, studs, and queers' : three studies in the reproduction of hypermasculinity -- High performance : drugs, politics, and profit in sport -- Re-creating recreation : sport and social change.
Subject Sports -- Social aspects.
Masculinity (Psychology)
ISBN 0802077250 (pbk.)
0802028446 (bound)

 
    
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