ABSTRACT
'Manufactured' Masculinity should be considered essential reading for scholars in the humanities and social sciences at every level and in all parts of the academic world. It weaves together brilliantly the elements of the 'manufacture' of masculinity in the period world-famous 'public' school system for the privileged which serviced the largest empire, the world has ever known, at the zenith of its control and which has had a significant influence in the formation of the modern world. This authoritative study of the making of British imperial masculinity shines light on the period of Muscular Christianity, Social Darwinism and Militarism as meshed ideological instruments of both power and persuasion.
This magisterial study reveals the extraordinary and paramount influence of games fields as the 'machine tools' in an 'industrial process' with the schools as 'workshops' containing 'cultural conveyor-belts' for the production of robust, committed and confident servants of empire, and templates for imperial reproduction in imperial possessions. Mainly on efficient 'production belt' playing fields of the privileged minds were moulded, attitudes were constructed and bodies shaped - for imperial manhood. Earlier 'manliness' was metamorphosized, morality was redefined and militarism at the high point of imperial grandeur was an adjunct. Professor Mangan outlines this unique process of cultural conditioning with a unique range of evidence and analysis.
This book was published as a special double issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|9 pages
Revolution
chapter 1|9 pages
Prologue
part 2|94 pages
Metamorphosis
chapter 2|30 pages
Bullies, Beatings, Battles and Bruises
chapter 5|6 pages
From Hooligans to Heroes and from Ferocity to Fair Play:
part 3|104 pages
Adjunct
chapter 7|26 pages
Duty unto Death:
chapter 9|21 pages
Moralists, Metaphysicians And Mythologists
chapter 10|15 pages
Games Field and Battlefield
chapter 11|23 pages
‘Golden Boys' of Playing Field and Battlefield
part 4|80 pages
Emulation
chapter 12|34 pages
Imitating Their Betters and Disassociating from Their Inferiors
chapter 14|17 pages
Catalyst of Change
part 5|116 pages
Dissemination
chapter 17|9 pages
Britain's Chief Spiritual Export
chapter 20|20 pages
Noble Specimens of Manhood
part 6|9 pages
Evolution