1995
DOI: 10.1080/09523369508713893
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Duty unto death: English masculinity and militarism in the age of the new imperialism

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“…Sport has been used historically as a vehicle for distinguishing Australia from 'Motherland' Britain, providing a rich source for mythologizing the colonial frontier. Historical scholarship, such as Mangan's (1996) work on Victorian and Edwardian England provides a basis for thinking about how the origins of Western masculinity are tied to racism and colonialism. Mangan (1996) argues that masculinity was an important part of the enthusiasm for enlisting at the outbreak of WWI.…”
Section: Heroic Sportsmenmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Sport has been used historically as a vehicle for distinguishing Australia from 'Motherland' Britain, providing a rich source for mythologizing the colonial frontier. Historical scholarship, such as Mangan's (1996) work on Victorian and Edwardian England provides a basis for thinking about how the origins of Western masculinity are tied to racism and colonialism. Mangan (1996) argues that masculinity was an important part of the enthusiasm for enlisting at the outbreak of WWI.…”
Section: Heroic Sportsmenmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Historical scholarship, such as Mangan's (1996) work on Victorian and Edwardian England provides a basis for thinking about how the origins of Western masculinity are tied to racism and colonialism. Mangan (1996) argues that masculinity was an important part of the enthusiasm for enlisting at the outbreak of WWI. In the Australian context, this is evident in the cult that arose around the members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (Anzac) following their involvement in WWI (see Chap.…”
Section: Heroic Sportsmenmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the age of the new imperialism 'the national hero was now a warrior', and owing to the power of patriotism to cut through class boundaries these manly ideals came to have a pervasive influence throughout late Victorian society and popular culture. 20 Interestingly, within Scottish education, upper-middle-class and middle-class culture of a similar period, this emphasis on sport as fundamental to the creation of manly moral virtue was scarcely evident. 21 However, the Highland soldier who easily translated in the British popular Fiona Anderson imagination, into being representative of Scots soldiers and Scots masculinity in general exemplified the warrior hero, and provided a model of hardy endurance, who retained a hint of the untamed savage, but whose negative characteristics had been to a large extent alleviated by the disciplining power of the Empire.…”
Section: Fiona Andersonmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…60 For example, as Mangan states, 'an imperial masculinity consonant with empire building became a sexual imperative'. 61 Sport and tailored tweed garments were powerful signifiers that helped to build and maintain imperial constructions of idealized masculine identities. The wearing of tweed by women reflected a contradictory set of responses to these dominant discourses.…”
Section: Fiona Andersonmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Mangan, 'English playing fields were recognised training grounds for imperial battlefields'. 34 As Mangan and others have argued, the enthusiastic response of hundreds of thousands of volunteers during the First World War can be attributed, in part at least, to the inculcation of militarism in English education. Prompted by fears of imperial decline and the apparent threat of Asian invasion, the ideals of Australian schools similarly focussed increasingly on fighting ability as the schools devoted themselves to turning out boys with the capabilities and willingness to defend monarch, country and empire on the battlefield.…”
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