Remaking the male body masculinity and the uses of physical culture in interwar and Vichy France
"Remaking the Male Body looks at interwar physical culture as a set of popular practices and as a field of ideas. It takes as its central subject the imagined failure of French manhood that was mapped out in this realm by physical culturist 'experts', often physicians. Their diagnosis...
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press
2012
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| See on Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991002996839708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Table of Contents:
- Physical culturists, masculine ideals, and social hygiene
- The body of the citizen-soldier: physical education and the state
- Male bodies between associative life and consumer spectacle: the mass press and popular sporting practice
- The uses of sport and physical culture in mass politics: mobilizing the 'new man', 1918-1934
- Mass culture and mass politics, 1934-1940
- The defeat of French manhood and the Vichy imagination.
