Sport in the Global Society

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111. Making Men: Rugby and Masculine Identity

     Edited by Timothy J.L. Chandler, John Nauright

     Series: Sport in the Global Society

     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....

     Published June 28th 1996 by Routledge
112. European Heroes

     Myth, Identity, Sport

     Edited by Pierre Lanfranchi, Richard Holt, J A Mangan

     Series: Sport in the Global Society

     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...

     Published February 29th 1996 by Routledge
113. Tribal Identities

     Nationalism, Europe, Sport

     Edited by J A Mangan

     Series: Sport in the Global Society

     Sport is far more than a national and international entertainment. It is a source of political identity, morale, pride and superiority. This text explores the influence of sport on the nations of Europe as a mechanism of national solidarity....

     Published November 30th 1995 by Routledge