reduce male sexual power over them. In Australia and New Zealand, similar campaigns were under Women's temperance committees were set up in the 1890s. Their aims were 'to curtail masculine privilege and those practices most injurious to women and children -notably drinking, smoking, gambling and male sexual indulgence. They did not seek total independence for women, but to make their dependence a happier and more secure state. They sought to change mankind -to make men more considerate and responsible fathers, more companionable

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reduce male sexual power over them. In Australia and New Zealand, similar campaigns were under Women's temperance committees were set up in the 1890s. Their aims were 'to curtail masculine privilege and those practices most injurious to women and children -notably drinking, smoking, gambling and male sexual indulgence. They did not seek total independence for women, but to make their dependence a happier and more secure state. They sought to change mankind -to make men more considerate and responsible fathers, more companionable

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reduce male sexual power over them. In Australia and New Zealand, similar campaigns were under Women's temperance committees were set up in the 1890s. Their aims were 'to curtail masculine privilege and those practices most injurious to women and children -notably drinking, smoking, gambling and male sexual indulgence. They did not seek total independence for women, but to make their dependence a happier and more secure state. They sought to change mankind -to make men more considerate and responsible fathers, more companionable

ABSTRACT

Rugby was a game of the titans. While playing rugby assured social acceptance, to excel at it ensured immortality. The press increasingly gave prominence to great rugby players, granting them 'semi-divine status'. At the national level, the flowery reportage of the Australian novelist, A. G. Hales, on the first Springbok tour to Britain in 1906, refined reportage to an art.