The Politics of the Male Body in Global Sport: The Danish Involvement

ISBN-13: 9780415571760 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 304 str.

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Opis

Danish sport has been associated with Europe and the World; not least through I.P. Muller and Niels Bukh and the Danish Gymnastics revolution with its emphasis on male aesthetics and hygiene in the first half of the twentieth century. At the same time, Denmark has stood apart from Europe in the early moments of its history of sport with the rural revolution of the farming communities as a statement of political independence and assertion. However, during the German occupation of Denmark, Danish sport was part of a European collaboration which characterized a number of the occupied countries not least in the Nordic area. After the Second World War, Denmark embraced international body cultures with other European nations in particular Eastern martial arts. Denmark too, as part of trends in the European region and the world, became caught up in sport as a powerful contemporary political statement.

This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

Spis treści

1. Foreword  2. Prologue: Globalization, Regionalsim, Nationalism: Danish idiosyncrasy  Revolution: Danish sport - Breakthrough  3. The Time and Speed Ideology: 19th century industrialisation and sport  4. Political Assertion: rural revolutionary gymnastics  The Gymnastics Cult: National and International Perspectives  5. From Hygiene to Salvation: I.P. Muller, international advocate of gymnastics  6. The Devil in the Flesh: "Captain Jespersen", preacher of the pure body  The Ascent of Right-wing Masculinity  7. The Gymnastics 'Sexual Revolution': Niels Bukh, male aesthetics and homophilea  8. Nationalism in the Age of Extremes: taking Danish gymnastics to the world  9. The Struggle for Danish Youth: Fascism, Sport, democracy  Sport with the enemy  10. Danish Sport and the Nazi Seizure of Power: indoctrination, propaganda and confrontation  11. Revolt: Danish resistance to sports collaboration with Nazi Germany  12. Turn of the Tide: Nordic ideological change  Oriental Martial Arts: World, Modernity and European Youth  13. Return of Ritual: martial arts and the young's revolt against the youth rebellion  Sport and Contemporary European Society  14. The Great Male Cycle: sport, politics and European masculinity today  15. Sport, the Olympics and Politics: European responses to Beijing 2008  16. Epilogue: Globalization before Globalization: Denmark sets a European fashion

O autorze

Hans Bonde is a professor, Ph.D. and D.Phil in history, at the Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is Leader of the Danish Research Education Program in Sport Sciences (http://reps.ku.dk/). In 2007 the Danish version of his book Football with the Foe was awarded the prize as The Danish History Book of the Year.