Joan Tumblety

Remaking the Male Body

Masculinity and the Uses of Physical Culture in Interwar and Vichy France

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first monograph to explore the imagined link between male athletic prowess and national strength in interwar France. It ultimately sheds light on the roots of Vichy's project for masculine regeneration after the military defeat of 1940.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780199695577
• ISBN-10: 0199695571
• Artikelnr.: 35483679

Autorenporträt

Joan Tumblety teaches History at the University of Southampton. Her recent research has focused on the cultural and gender history of early to mid-twentieth century France, with a special interest in masculinity. Her current project examines the interface between scientific discourse and popular culture. She recently served as co-editor of the interdisciplinary journal Modern & Contemporary France (2006-2011).

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Physical culturists, masculine ideals, and social hygiene
* 2: The body of the citizen-soldier: physical education and the state
* 3: Male bodies between associative life and consumer spectacle: the
mass press and popular sporting practice
* 4: The uses of sport and physical culture in mass politics:
mobilizing the 'new man', 1918-1934
* 5: Mass culture and mass politics, 1934-1940
* 6: The defeat of French manhood and the Vichy imagination
* Conclusion
* Bibliograhy