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Remaking the Male Body - Masculinity and the uses of Physical Culture in Interwar and Vichy France (Hardcover, New)
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Remaking the Male Body - Masculinity and the uses of Physical Culture in Interwar and Vichy France (Hardcover, New)
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Remaking the Male Body looks at interwar physical culture as a set
of popular practices and as a field of ideas. It takes as its
central subject the imagined failure of French manhood that was
mapped out in this realm by physical culturist 'experts', often
physicians. Their diagnosis of intertwined crises in masculine
virility and national vitality was surprisingly widely shared
across popular and political culture. Theirs was a hygienist and
sometimes overtly eugenicist conception of physical exercise and
national strength that suggests the persistence of fin-de-siecle
pre-occupations with biological degeneration and regeneration well
beyond the First World War. Joan Tumblety traces these patterns of
thinking about the male body across a seemingly disparate set of
voices, all of whom argued that the physical training of men
offered a salve to France's real and imagined woes. In
interrogating a range of sources, from get-fit manuals and the
popular press, to the mobilising campaigns of popular politics on
left and right and official debates about physical education,
Tumblety illustrates how the realm of male physical culture was
presented as an instrument of social hygiene as well as an
instrument of political struggle. In highlighting the purchase of
these concerns in the interwar years, the book ultimately sheds
light on the roots of Vichy's project for masculine renewal after
the military defeat of 1940.
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