Body by Weimar: Athletes, Gender, and German Modernity
Author:   Erik N. Jensen (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, Miami University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
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9780195395648


Pages:   200
Publication Date:   28 October 2010
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Erik N. Jensen (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, Miami University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 15.70cm
Weight:   0.425kg
ISBN:  

9780195395648


ISBN 10:   0195395646
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   28 October 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Introduction: Building a Better German 1. Disorder on the Court: Soft Men, Hard Women, and Steamy Tennis 2. Belle of the Brawl: The Boxer between Sensationalism and Sport 3. German Engineering: Duty, Performance, and the Track and Field Athlete Conclusion: Body beyond Weimar: Germany's Athletic Legacy Notes Index

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<br> Erik Jensen has written an excellent book that shows the importance of the body for our understanding of Weimar Germany. Lean, fast, and fit-and competitive-the ideal sportsmen and sportswomen of the 1920s were emblematic of modernity. Each chapter, on tennis, boxing, and track, is replete with insights and splendid illustrations. -Eric D. Weitz, author of Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy<br> Jensen's study is a cultural history of the discourses of gender, modernity, and modern sports that concentrates on the everyday experience of the mass of Germans who read about athletes in the popular press or in popular fiction, who went to movies that featured them, and who emulated them in their daily routines and fashions. For professional historians, it fills a significant gap. For a more popular audience, it tells a fascinating part of the story of how the world we live in, in which women as well as men routinely compete in sports, and in which Germany routinely dominates Olympic c


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Erik N. Jensen is Associate Professor of History at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.

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