- 236 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
This is a study of masculinity as a metaphor and especially of the muscular male body as a moral symbol. It explores the Nazi's preoccupation with the male body as an icon of political power, and the ideology and theories which propelled it.
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eBook ISBN
9781135296735Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Series Editor’s Foreword
- Prologue: Legacies
- 1. The Potent Image and the Permanent Prometheus
- 2. Racism, Social Darwinism, Anti-Semitism and Aryan Supremacy
- 3. Breeding, Rearing and Preparing the Aryan Body: Creating Supermen the Nazi Way
- 4. Primacy of Performance: Superman not Superathlete
- 5. Riefenstahl's Olympia: Ideology and Aesthetics in the Shaping of the Aryan Athletic Body
- 6. Blond, Strong and Pure: ‘Proto-Fascism', Male Bodies and Political Tradition
- 7. Icon of Monumental Brutality: Art and the Aryan Man
- 8. Festival and Cult: Masculine and Militaristic Mechanisms of National Socialism
- 9. Sacred, Inspired Authority: D.H. Lawrence, Literature and the Fascist Body
- Epilogue: Continuities
- Select Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
- Abstracts
- Index