Author: C.G. PagésPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : fr
Pages : 240
Book Description
Manuel de culture physique
Author: C.G. PagésRemaking the Male Body
Author: Joan TumbletyPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191636894
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Remaking the Male Body looks at interwar physical culture as a set of popular practices and as a field of ideas. It takes as its central subject the imagined failure of French manhood that was mapped out in this realm by physical culturist 'experts', often physicians. Their diagnosis of intertwined crises in masculine virility and national vitality was surprisingly widely shared across popular and political culture. Theirs was a hygienist and sometimes overtly eugenicist conception of physical exercise and national strength that suggests the persistence of fin-de-siècle pre-occupations with biological degeneration and regeneration well beyond the First World War. Joan Tumblety traces these patterns of thinking about the male body across a seemingly disparate set of voices, all of whom argued that the physical training of men offered a salve to France's real and imagined woes. In interrogating a range of sources, from get-fit manuals and the popular press, to the mobilising campaigns of popular politics on left and right and official debates about physical education, Tumblety illustrates how the realm of male physical culture was presented as an instrument of social hygiene as well as an instrument of political struggle. In highlighting the purchase of these concerns in the interwar years, the book ultimately sheds light on the roots of Vichy's project for masculine renewal after the military defeat of 1940.
Manuel de culture physique
Author: Calixte C. PagésKinetic Cultures
Author: Rachana VajjhalaPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520356276
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Belle époque Paris adored dance. Whether at the music hall or in more refined theaters, audiences flocked to see the spectacles offered to them by the likes of Isadora Duncan, Diaghilev’s flashy company, and an embarrassment of Salomés. After languishing in the shadow of opera for much of the nineteenth century, ballet found itself part of this lively kinetic constellation. In Kinetic Cultures, Rachana Vajjhala argues that far from being mere delectation, ballet was implicated in the larger republican project of national rehabilitation through a rehabilitation of its citizens. By tracing the various gestural complexes of the period—bodybuilding routines, appropriate physical comportment for women, choreographic vocabularies, and more–-Vajjhala presents a new way of understanding histories of dance and music, one that she locates in gesture and movement.
Manuel de culture physique à l'usage des écoles. [With illustrations.].
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Author: Strathcona Trust for the Encouragement of Physical Culture and Military Drill in Public Schools (CANADA)Publisher:
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Languages : fr
Pages : 173
Book Description
The Kings of Strength
Author: Edmond DesbonnetPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476687242
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
More than a century ago, the barrel-chested strongman clad in leopard skins, Roman sandals and carrying an oversized barbell was a common performer in fairs, circuses and vaudeville theaters. In 1911, before this phenomenon had disappeared, French gym owner, journalist and athlete Edmond Desbonnet published a colorful history of these mighty performers. Since he knew and interviewed many of these men (and women), Desbonnet was able to put a human face on the strongmen and strongwomen who made their livings by performing spectacular strength stunts for the entertainment of the public. Among these were super-strong athlete Louis Uni, known as Apollon; Eugen Sandow, the mighty Adonis of the stage; the great strongwoman Kati Sandwina Brumbach and many others who entertained audiences by lifting barbells, automobiles, horses and even elephants. Now translated to English and extensively annotated, The Kings of Strength records and preserves the biographies of more than 200 strength performers and bodybuilders from ancient times up to the early 1900s. The book provides a vital contribution to both theatrical and athletic history, while exploring the universal fascination with strength and muscular physiques.
National Library of Medicine Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1242
Book Description
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Pour la race (petit manuel de culture physique), par le professeur Max Abbat...
Author: Max AbbatSoyons forts ! Manuel de culture physique
Author: James Edward RuffierPublisher:
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Languages : fr
Pages : 168
Book Description
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