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

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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

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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