DISCLOSURE:
When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission at no extra cost to you. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network, Amazon and Alibris.
A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work.
ISBN10: 0199695571, ISBN13: 9780199695577, [publisher: Oxford Uni Press] Hardcover 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. [Nagoya, AICHI, Japan] [Publication Year: 2012]
Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Remaking the Male Body: Masculinity and the Uses of Physical Culture in Interwar and Vichy France. ISBN 0199695571 9780199695577 [GB]
Oxford University Press, USA 12/12/2012 12: 00: 00 AM Hardcover PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
ISBN10: 0199695571, ISBN13: 9780199695577, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. 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 of intertwined crises in masculine virility and national vitality was surprisingly widely shared across popular and political culture. Theirs was a hygienist and sometimesovertly eugenicist conception of physical exercise and national strength that suggests the persistence of fin-de-siecle pre-occupations with biological degeneration and regeneration well beyond the First World War.Joan Tumblety traces these patterns of thinking about the male body across a seemingly disparate set of voices, all of whom argued that the physical training of men offered a salve to France's real and imagined woes. In interrogating a range of sources, from get-fit manuals and the popular press, to the mobilising campaigns of popular politics on left and right and official debates about physical education, Tumblety illustrates how the realm of male physical culture was presented as aninstrument of social hygiene as well as an instrument of political struggle. In highlighting the purchase of these concerns in the interwar years, the book ultimately sheds light on the roots of Vichy'sp ...
Oxford University Press, USA 12/12/2012 12: 00: 00 AM Hardcover PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
ISBN10: 0199695571, ISBN13: 9780199695577, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover Book is in Used-LikeNew condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear. 1.25 [Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2012]
ISBN10: 0199695571, ISBN13: 9780199695577, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover New! This book is in the same immaculate condition as when it was published 1.25 [Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2012]
ISBN10: 0199695571, ISBN13: 9780199695577, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. 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 of intertwined crises in masculine virility and national vitality was surprisingly widely shared across popular and political culture. Theirs was a hygienist and sometimesovertly eugenicist conception of physical exercise and national strength that suggests the persistence of fin-de-siecle pre-occupations with biological degeneration and regeneration well beyond the First World War.Joan Tumblety traces these patterns of thinking about the male body across a seemingly disparate set of voices, all of whom argued that the physical training of men offered a salve to France's real and imagined woes. In interrogating a range of sources, from get-fit manuals and the popular press, to the mobilising campaigns of popular politics on left and right and official debates about physical education, Tumblety illustrates how the realm of male physical culture was presented as aninstrument of social hygiene as well as an instrument of political struggle. In highlighting the purchase of these concerns in the interwar years, the book ultimately sheds light on the roots of Vichy'sp ...
ISBN10: 0199695571, ISBN13: 9780199695577, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover [DH, SE, Spain] [Publication Year: 2012]
DISCLOSURE:
When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission at no extra cost to you. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network, Amazon and Alibris.
