Making Men: Rugby and Masculine Identity

• Author(s): Timothy J.L. Chandler, John Nauright,
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 272
• ISBN_10: 1136303715
  ISBN_13: 9781136303715
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Sports & Recreation / General , Sports & Recreation / Rugby , Social Science / Sociology / General , Social Science / Gender Studies , Political Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism ,

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.