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Sport is one of the most neglected areas of culture in academic studies, but cultural students and historians and sociologists of sport are now beginning to make up this deficit – this can be seen in the growth of journals specializing in sport.1
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Jennifer A. Hargreaves, ‘Gender on the Sports Agenda’, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 25:4 (1990) p. 295.
Roberta J. Park, ‘Biological thought, athletics and the formation of a “man of character”: 1830-1900’, in J. A. Mangan and J. Walvin (eds), Manliness and Morality: Middle-Class Masculinity in Britain and America, 1800–1940 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987) pp. 17–18.
11. Michael A. Messner, ‘Masculinities and Athletic Careers’, in J. Lorber and S. A. Farrell (eds), The Social Construction of Gender (Newbury Park: Sage, 1991) p. 67.
Richard Holt, Sport and the British: A Modern History (Oxford: Clarendon, 1989) pp. 122–4.
Eric Dunning, ‘Sociological Reflections on Sport, Violence and Civilization’ , International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 25: 1 (1990) p. 75; see also R. Holt, Sport and the British, pp. 327–8.
A. Laitinen and A. Tiihonen, ‘Narratives of Men’s Experiences in Sport’, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 25:3 (1990) p. 189.
29. Thomas Hauser, Muhammed Ali: His Life and Times (London: Robson Books, 1991) pp. 28 and 63.
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Horrocks, R. (1995). Male Sport. In: Campling, J. (eds) Male Myths and Icons. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230389397_9
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