ABSTRACT
In these tales we hear of the disrespected world of flesh. Unlike the immediately seen values of the visible, flesh conceals a range of attributes. We bear of the power of the trained body and the strange relations between sporting achievement and national glory. In some arenas, physical prowess is championed; yet the story of white male ascendancy called modernity constrains and conceals the body in the name of progress. In this story, bodies are the business of the other: other genitals, other skins, other places, other practices. Becoming human in this regime means giving up these unruly relations to flesh; these are the stories of bow white men tried to impose their vision of physical order on us all.
