'Manufactured' Masculinity : Making Imperial Manliness, Morality and Militarism

ISBN-13: 9780415677189 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 464 str.

J. A. Mangan

Opis

This title weaves together 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.

Spis treści

James Anthony Mangan: An Appreciation Sheldon Rothblatt  Preface: ‘Swansong’ J.A. Mangan  Revolution  1. Prologue: Middle-Class ‘Revolutionaries’ in Pursuit of Moral, Physical, Political and Social Health and the History ofModern European Sport as a History of Modern European Ideas  Metamorphosis  2. Bullies, Beatings, Battles and Bruises: ‘Great Days and Jolly Days’ at One Mid-Victorian Public School  3. Athleticism: A Case Study of the Evolution of an Educational Ideology  4. Social Darwinism and Upper-Class Education in Late Victorian and Edwardian England  5. From Hooligans to Heroes and from Ferocity to Fair Play: Some English Historical Origins of Modern World Sport  6. Philathlete Extraordinary: A Portrait of the Victorian Moralist Edward Bowen  Adjunct  7. Duty unto Death: English Masculinity and Militarism in the Age of the New Imperialism  8. ‘Muscular, Militaristic and Manly’: The Middle-Class Hero as Moral Messenger  9. Moralists, Metaphysicians And Mythologists: The ‘Signifiers’ of a Victorian Sub-Culture  10. Games Field and Battlefield: A Romantic Alliance in Verse and the Creation of Militaristic Masculinity  11. ‘Golden Boys’ of Playing Field and Battlefield: Celebrating Heroes – ‘Lost’ Middle-Class Women Versifiers of the Great War  Emulation  12. Imitating Their Betters and Disassociating from Their Inferiors: Grammar Schools and the Games Ethic in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries  13. Missionaries to the Scottish Middle Classes  14. Catalyst of Change: John Guthrie Kerr and the Adaptation of an Indigenous Scottish Tradition  15. Almond of Loretto: Scottish Educational Visionary and Reformer  Dissemination  16. Images for Confident Control: Stereotypes in Imperial Discourse  17. Britain’s Chief Spiritual Export: Imperial Sport as Moral Metaphor, Political Symbol and Cultural Bond  18. ‘The Grit of Our Forefathers’: Invented Traditions, Propaganda and Imperialism  19. Ethics and Ethnocentricity in British Tropical Africa  20. Noble Specimens of Manhood: Schoolboy Literature and the Creation of a Colonial Chivalric Code  21. Soccer as Moral Training: Missionary Intentions and Imperial Legacies  22. Epilogue: Aggression and Androgyny: Gender Fusion In and Beyond Sport in the Post-Millennium

O autorze

J.A. Mangan, Emeritus Professor of Strathclyde University, is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, author of the internationally acclaimed Athleticism in the Victorian and Edwardian Public School (CUP) and The Games Ethic and Imperialism (Penguin/Viking), a Founding Editor of the International Journal of the History of Sport, other journals including Sport in Society and the series Sport in the Global Society. He has lectured worldwide and held fellowships (or their equivalent) in America (Berkeley), Africa, Australasia and England (Oxford and Cambridge). 'Manufactured' Masculinity has attracted exceptional acclaim in America, Africa, Asia, Australasia and Europe.