ABSTRACT
Rugby and Masculinity Much of Afrikaner historiography dealing with the history of the 'volk' has been predominantly 'conceived of in terms of male actors who create and sustain the nation by military and constitutional or political struggles from which women were by definition excluded' .63 Such an approach is problematical on three counts: it renders women historically invisible; as a natural corollary there is no conception of gender relations; and the understanding of nationalism and the 'volk' is restricted to the political, thus lacking interlocking social and cultural dimensions.
