| Description |
179 pages |
| Series |
SoPhi, 1238-8025 ; [35] |
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SoPhi.
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| Contents |
Through Sharpened Eyes. The Body Bridge / Mark Sudwell. Boxed In / Jim Denison. Three Ages of Changing / Peter Swan. Boxing Glove / David Jackson -- Shocking Body. The Fragile Body-Self / Andrew C. Sparkes. A Cock-Sure Body / David Jackson. Disrupted Selves and Narrative Reconstructions / Andrew C. Sparkes and Brett Smith. Anguish of the Body / Martti Silvennoinen -- Extremities. The Social Meaning of Muscle / David Brown. Warrior Sport. Grammar School Rugby 1956-1959 / David Jackson. Secret Life in the Culture of Thinness / Mikko Innanen -- Metamorphoses. Heroic Masculinity in the Recovery from Spinal Cord Injury / Douglas A. Kleiber and Susan M. Hutchinson. Men's Selves and Sport / Jim Denison. My Body as a Metaphor / Martti Silvennoinen. My Daughter Teaches Me How To Float / David Jackson |
| Summary |
"This book contains stories which are experienced and written by ten white, middle-class, academic men and one woman from Australia, Finland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the USA." "All are based on autobiographical narratives stemming from the authors' own experience or from their interpretations of stories told by other men. Many of the story-tellers are ex-athletes, so to speak, able-bodied men. But, what happens when this feeling of masculinity begins to change or even disappear? What does it mean when a familiar body becomes troublesome, disruptive, alien, or even anguished?" -- BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
"Men's Narratives of the Body and Sport"--Cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies |
| Subject |
Masculinity.
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Men -- Identity.
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Sports -- Social aspects.
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| Author |
Silvennoinen, Martti.
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Sparkes, A. (Andrew)
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| LC no. |
2001349327 |
| ISBN |
9513904245 |
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