Remaking the male body : masculinity and the uses of physical culture in interwar and Vichy France /

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 in...

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Main Author: Tumblety, Joan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
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