Making Men: Rugby and Masculine Identity

Timothy J.L. Chandler, John Nauright

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9780714641560
  9780714646374
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781136303715
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Gender Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

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.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of illustrations and tables
• Notes on the Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Rugby, Manhood and Identity
• 1 The Structuring of Manliness and the Development of Rugby Football at the Public Schools and Oxbridge, 1830–1880
• 2 Rugby, Class, Amateurism and Manliness; The Case of Rugby in Northern England, 1871–1895
• 3 Sport and the Masculine Hegemony of the Modern Nation: Welsh Rugby, Culture and Society, 1890–1914
• 4 The Hard Man: Rugby and the Formation of Male Identity in New Zealand
• 5 Forging a Ruling Race: Rugby and White Masculinity in Colonial Natal, c. 1870–1910
• 6 Colonial Manhood and Imperial Race Virility: British Responses to Post-Boer War Colonial Rugby Tours
• 7 Games Field and Battlefield: A Romantic Alliance in Verse and the Creation of Militaristic Masculinity
• 8 Football, Class and War: The Rugby Codes in New South Wales, 1907–1918
• 9 Playing for Power? Rugby, Afrikaner Nationalism and Masculinity in South Africa, c.1900–c.1970
• 10 ‘Hitting Them Where It Hurts’: Springbok-All Black Rugby, Masculine National Identity and Counter-Hegemonic Struggle, 1959–1992
• 11 Sustaining Masculine Hegemony: Rugby and the Nostalgia of Masculinity
• 12 Conclusion
• Index