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Making Men: Rugby and Masculine Identity
Author(s): Timothy J.L. Chandler (Editor), John Nauright
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 29 Jun. 1996
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 272 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780714646374
- ISBN-13: 9780714646374
Book Description
This text looks at how an understanding of rugby can provide insight into what it has meant to “be a man” in societies influenced by the ideals of Victorian upper and middle classes. It shows that rugby has been a means of promoting male exclusivity, but also been a means of cultural incorporation.
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Inaugural World in Union Book Award for Best Authored/Edited Book Presented by the World Rugby Museum 2015
About the Author
John Nauright, Timothy J.L. Chandler
