Description
| Product ID: | 9780415849418 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives |
| Title: | ‘Manufactured’ Masculinity |
| Subtitle: | Making Imperial Manliness, Morality and Militarism |
| Authors: | Author: J. A. Mangan |
| Page Count: | 464 |
| Subjects: | Regional / International studies, Regional studies, European history, Social and cultural history, Colonialism and imperialism, Cultural studies, Social classes, Social theory, Social and cultural anthropology, Philosophy and theory of education, Sports training and coaching, British & Irish history, Social & cultural history, Colonialism & imperialism, Cultural studies, Social classes, Social theory, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Philosophy & theory of education, Sports training & coaching |
| Description: | This book offers a penetrating analysis of cultural conditioning into Late Victorian and Edwardian middle class masculinity. It was published as a special double issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport. ''Manufactured'' Masculinity should be considered essential reading for scholars in the humanities and social sciences at every level and in all parts of the academic world. It weaves together brilliantly the elements of the ''manufacture'' of masculinity in the period world-famous ''public'' school system for the privileged which serviced the largest empire, the world has ever known, at the zenith of its control and which has had a significant influence in the formation of the modern world. This authoritative study of the making of British imperial masculinity shines light on the period of Muscular Christianity, Social Darwinism and Militarism as meshed ideological instruments of both power and persuasion. This magisterial study reveals the extraordinary and paramount influence of games fields as the ''machine tools'' in an ''industrial process'' with the schools as ''workshops'' containing ''cultural conveyor-belts'' for the production of robust, committed and confident servants of empire, and templates for imperial reproduction in imperial possessions. Mainly on efficient ''production belt'' playing fields of the privileged minds were moulded, attitudes were constructed and bodies shaped - for imperial manhood. Earlier ''manliness'' was metamorphosized, morality was redefined and militarism at the high point of imperial grandeur was an adjunct. Professor Mangan outlines this unique process of cultural conditioning with a unique range of evidence and analysis. This book was published as a special double issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2013-04-15 |
