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Mediating masculinities: the production of media representations in sport

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Abstract

In recent years, masculinity has become an intensely researched topic that, in various books, has been discovered, theorised, deconstructed, dislocated, unwrapped, unmasked, and placed in perspective. There is, of course, no single essential trans-historical and trans-cultural masculinity. Investigation of such ‘moments’ as the Roman circus (Wiedemann 1992; Crowther 1996), the chivalric conventions of the sixteenth century (Brailsford 1969), gentlemanly behaviour in the eighteenth century (Cohen 1996), nineteenth-century muscular Christianity (Mangan 1981) or the Empire adventurers of the late nineteenth century (Dawson 1994), show that masculinity is always shaped in ways that have a social and historical specifi city. In analysing these processes, it is therefore necessary to consider discontinuities as well as continuities (Roper and Tosh 1991).

Publication Information

Output type

Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter Peer-review

Original language

English

Publication milestones

  • Published - 01/01/2007

Publication status

Published - 01/01/2007

Publisher

Routledge, United States, United Kingdom

ISBN (Print)

9780415259576

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/295967

Host publication title

Sport and gender identities masculinities, femininities and sexualities

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