‘You’re a Real Man After All’: Fashioning the Male Physique in Twentieth-Century Boxing and Wrestling Magazines
Edited book (chapter)
Stevenson, Ana and Patrick, David. 2022. "‘You’re a Real Man After All’: Fashioning the Male Physique in Twentieth-Century Boxing and Wrestling Magazines." Dexl, Carmen and Gerlsbeck, Silvia (ed.) The Male Body in Representation: Returning to Matter. Cham, Switzerland. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 53-74
| Chapter Title | ‘You’re a Real Man After All’: Fashioning the Male Physique in Twentieth-Century Boxing and Wrestling Magazines |
|---|---|
| Book Chapter Category | Edited book (chapter) |
| ERA Publisher ID | 2865 |
| Book Title | The Male Body in Representation: Returning to Matter |
| Authors | Stevenson, Ana (Author) and Patrick, David (Author) |
| Editors | Dexl, Carmen and Gerlsbeck, Silvia |
| Page Range | 53-74 |
| Series | Palgrave Studies in (Re)Presenting Gender |
| Chapter Number | 3 |
| Number of Pages | 22 |
| Year | 2022 |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Place of Publication | Cham, Switzerland |
| ISBN | 9783030886035 |
| 9783030886042 | |
| ISSN | 2662-9364 |
| 2662-9372 | |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88604-2_3 |
| Web Address (URL) | https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-88604-2_3 |
| Abstract | As part of their intriguing research on constructions of the ‘ideal male body’ in the US-American cultural imaginary, this article by Ana Stevenson and David Patrick examines three US-based boxing and wrestling magazines, popular during the 1950s and 1960s. Focusing specifically on advertisements in The Ring, Boxing and Wrestling, and Boxing Illustrated Wrestling News, Stevenson and Patrick show that the ‘perfect male physique’ the magazines fashioned served to interpellate male readers into connected ideals of economic success, physical strength, and sexual prowess. The ‘paranoid’ perspective adopted by Stevenson and Patrick exposes the magazines’ complicity with reasserting ‘hegemonic masculinity’ and reinforcing exclusive notions of the US national body as being based on the white male citizen’s body, which resonates with the era’s conservatism. |
| Keywords | boxing, wrestling, magazines, popular culture, body, paranoid reading |
| ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 430321. North American history |
| 430309. Gender history | |
| 470107. Media studies | |
| Public Notes | Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. |
| Byline Affiliations | USQ College |
| University of the Free State, South Africa | |
| Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
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