Making the Rugby World: Race, Gender, Commerce

ISBN-13: 9780714644110 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 256 str.

Timothy J. L. Chandler; John Nauright

Opis

Rugby union is a sport in transition, with an unclear future. Developments such as professionalization, globalization and the Rugby World Cup have altered the game forever, but the process of change has been going on for over a century. This work seeks to understand what has happened to rugby as it has moved from the realm of the English public school to the global realm dominated by Rupert Murdoch and other media entrepreneurs. It explores rugby and issues of race in the Empire/Commonwealth, rugby in non-British societies, women's rugby, homophobia and rugby, and nationalism and rugby, before turning to the impacts of globalization, professionalization and commercialization.

Spis treści

The Independent- "The issues explored - homophobia, nationalism, globalisation, gender, commercialisation - are hardly everyday talking points in the average clubhouse bar... But there are some green shoots of inspiration amongst the heavily politicised verbiage."



The Sports Historian, Vol 19, No 2, Nov 99

"A stimulating and innovative compilation."



Choice- " By examining the sport within ten settings defined by different racial, national, gender, and marketing perspectives, this book goes beyond the editor"s earlier work, Making Men: Rugby and Masculine Identity which looked at the games within Britain and its "Empire"

O autorze

Timothy J.L. Chandler, John Nauright