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

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

It gathers more spectators on a global basis than any other activity today. More than just a game, sport has profound political and social consequences, promoting a super-aggressive ideal of manhood and political culture.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Burstyn, Varda
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1999.
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Sports > Social aspects.
Masculinity.
Masculinity
Sports > Social aspects
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Introduction
  • 1 Societies, Bodies, and Ideologies: Terms and Approaches
  • Defining the Parameters of Sport in This Study
  • Sport as Secular Sacrament
  • The Masculinism of Sport
  • Approaching Power and Sexuality in Relation to Sport Culture
  • Approaching Violence, War, and Competition
  • 2 'To Raise the Wolf in a Man's Heart': Sport and Men's Culture in the Nineteenth Century
  • The Emergence of Sport in Capitalist Culture
  • Filling the Father Gap: Sport and the Crisis of Paternity
  • Sport and the Stabilization of Masculine Entitlement
  • Warriors versus Mothers: The Fraternal Lodges, Sport, and Men's Religion
  • Nation-Building, Imperialism, and Militarization
  • Football, Masculinity, and Militarization
  • 3 'Taming the Beast': Sport, Masculinity, and Sexuality in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
  • Physicality, Materialism, and the Dangers of Sex: Sport in the Spermatic Economy
  • Eroticizing the Other: The Politics of Sexual Displacement
  • The Working Class and Colonial Peoples
  • Sport: 'An Inner Balance between the Civilized and the Primitive'
  • The Militaristic Homoeroticization of Sport
  • 4 Delivering the Male: Sport Culture, the Mass Media, and the Masculinity Market
  • The Emergence of the Masculinity Market
  • Television, Sponsors, Sport, and Gender
  • Second-Wave Feminism and the Gender Crisis
  • 5 Spectacle, Commerce, and Bodies: Three Facets of Hypergender in the Sport Nexus
  • From Participation to Spectacle: Sport, Entertainment, and Hypermasculinity
  • Psychodemographics and Hypermasculinity
  • The Aesthetics and Iconography of Hypergender
  • 6 'Hit, Crunch, and Burn': Organized Violence and Men's Sport
  • Sanctioned Violence in Men's Sport
  • Sport, Violence against Women, and Fear of the Feminine.
  • Sport, War Culture, and Masculinity from the 1960s to the 1980s
  • The Erotics of Warrior Culture
  • Hypermasculinity, Sport Culture, and the Rise of Neoconservatism
  • 7 'Hooligans, Studs, and Queers': Three Studies in the Reproduction of Hypermasculinity
  • Hypermasculinity and Football Hooliganism
  • Sport, Hypermasculinity, and the Reproduction of Racism
  • Homoeroticism in Sport and the Athleticization of Gay Culture
  • 8 High Performance: Drugs, Politics, and Profit in Sport
  • The Politicization of Olympic Sport and the Triumph of Testosterone
  • He Shoots Up, He Scores: The Corporate Takeover
  • The Nightmare Zone: Bionic Athletes and Popular Culture
  • Childhood and High-Performance Athletics
  • Elite Sport versus Popular Health
  • 9 Re-creating Recreation: Sport and Social Change
  • Sport and Public Spending in Neoconservative Times
  • Disestablishing Sport in Public Systems
  • Sport and the Mass Media
  • Gender and the Culture of Sport on the Eve of the Twenty-First Century
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX
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