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The Rites of Men: Manhood, Politics, and the Culture of Sport
Varda Burstyn
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| #939272 in Books | University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division | 1999-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.00 x6.00l,1.31 | File type: PDF | 528 pages | ||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Book of the Year Award|By A Customer|Please add to the info about the book that it was awarded the Book of the Year Award by the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, for the year 2000. (See [...] "NASSS Awards".) I think the book is great, but can't ethically review it as I'm associated with the author. However, nothing wrong with getting the well-deserved aw||Ms. Burstyn invested 10 years of research into the workings of what she calls the 'sports nexus' -- the 'web of associated and interlocking organizations that includes sport, media, industry, government, public education, and recreation' -- and concluded that
It gathers more spectators on a global basis than any other activity today, yet sport is widely regarded as being outside dominant political and social systems. Varda Burstyn challenges this view, showing not only that sport generates an elitist, masculinist account of power and social order, but that it is central to the constitution of political power in contemporary life.
Burstyn begins by describing the emergence of sport as a masculinist secular religion by...
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