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Remaking the Male Body: Masculinity and the uses of Physical Culture in Interwar and Vichy France
Tumblety, Joan (Lecturer in History, University of Southampton)
Remaking the Male Body: Masculinity and the uses of Physical Culture in Interwar and Vichy France
Tumblety, Joan (Lecturer in History, University of Southampton)
The first monograph to explore the imagined link between male athletic prowess and national strength in interwar France. It ultimately sheds light on the roots of Vichy's project for masculine regeneration after the military defeat of 1940.
272 pages, 24 black and white images
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | October 4, 2012 |
ISBN13 | 9780199695577 |
Publishers | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 272 |
Dimensions | 163 × 240 × 19 mm · 562 g |