Sport in the Global Society
Making Men: Rugby and Masculine Identity
1st Edition
Edited
By Timothy J.L. Chandler, John Nauright
June 29, 1996
This text looks at how an understanding of rugby can provide insight into what it has meant to "be a man" in societies influenced by the ideals of Victorian upper and middle classes. It shows that rugby has been a means of promoting male exclusivity, but also been a means of cultural incorporation....
European Heroes: Myth, Identity, Sport
1st Edition
Edited
By Pierre Lanfranchi, Richard Holt, J A Mangan
March 01, 1996
Historians of popular culture have recently been addressing the role of myth, and now it is time that social historians of sport also examined it. The contributors to this collection of essays explore the symbolic meanings that have been attached to sport in Europe by considering some of the mythic...
Tribal Identities: Nationalism, Europe, Sport
1st Edition
Edited
By J A Mangan
December 01, 1995
Sport is far more than a national and international entertainment: it is a source of political identity, morale, pride and superiority. Tribal Identities explores the influence of sport on the nations of Europe as a mechanism of national solidarity promoting a sense of identity, unity, status and ...
From Fair Sex to Feminism: Sport and the Socialization of Women in the Industrial and Post-Industrial Eras
1st Edition
Edited
By Roberta J. Park, J A Mangan
September 02, 1987
First published in 1987 with the aim of deepening understanding of the place of women in the cultural heritage of modern society, this collection of essays brings together the previously discrete perspectives of women's studies and the social history of sport. Using feminist ideas to explore ...