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Overview
As sport has grown, progressively replacing religion, in its power to excite passion, provide emotional escape, offer fraternal (and increasingly sororital) bonding, it has come to loom larger and larger in the lives of Europeans and others. It has become an inescapable reality linking public environment with intimate experience and thus offers the historian an opportunity to inspect and attempt to grasp all the dimensions of the recent past and their relative share in individual and collective experience. This collection considers the evolution of modern sport in Europe and examines its role in shaping masculine identity.
Synopsis
As sport has grown, progressively replacing religion, in its power to excite passion, provide emotional escape, offer fraternal (and increasingly sororital) bonding, it has come to loom larger and larger in the lives of Europeans and others. It has become an inescapable reality linking public environment with intimate experience and thus offers the historian an opportunity to inspect and attempt to grasp all the dimensions of the recent past and their relative share in individual and collective experience. This collection considers the evolution of modern sport in Europe and examines its role in shaping masculine identity.
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Contains eight essays written by European scholars of sociology, sports history, and other fields addressing the past and present role of sports in shaping masculine identity in Europe. Some topics include the institution of the in the ancient Hellenic world and its role in making masculinity; anthropomorphic symbols of aggression and mythical male heroes in the bullfight of southern Europe; Ling gymnastics and male socialization in 19th century Sweden; and the projection of the male image in sports in Bulgaria. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)