Making European Masculinities: Sport, Europe, Gender

As sport has grown, progressively replacing religion, in its power to excite passion, provide emotional escape, offer fraternal (and increasingly sororital) bonding, it has come to loom larger and larger in the lives of Europeans and others. It has become an inescapable reality linking public environment with intimate experience and thus offers the historian an opportunity to inspect and attempt to grasp all the dimensions of the recent past and their relative share in individual and collective experience. This collection considers the evolution of modern sport in Europe and examines its role in shaping masculine identity.

Evangelos Albanidis is Senior Lecturer in Sports History at the Department of Physical Education, Democritus University of Thrace Hans Bonde is Associate Professor at the University of Southern Denmark Remi Dalisson lectures in history at the University of Rouen Jean-Michel Delaplace is Professor of Sociology at the University of Montpellier Vassil Girginov is Senior Lecturer in Leisure and Sport Studies at Luton Business School, University of Luton Colm Hickey is Deputy Headteacher of St Bernard's Catholic School, High Wycombe Jens Ljunggren teaches history at the University of Stockholm J.A. Mangan is Director of the International Research Centre for Sport, Socialisation and Society at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow Callum McKenzie is currently researching masculinity and field sports at the University of Strathclyde Frederic Saumade is at the University of Montpellier