Lovak a csolnakban: adalékok a modern férfiasság kialakulásának vizsgálatához
Horses in the Boats: data to the study of the emergence of the new masculinity

Summary/Abstract: Miklós Hadas’ text is an excerpt from a book he is currently working on entitled Sports and Masculinity. His starting question is this: What explains that until the fall of communism Hungary was among the three most successful nations, proportionate to population, in the history of modern sports movements? The author attempts an answer through the study of social dispositions, i.e. historically conditioned gendered behavioural patterns of different social groups. He argues that in the past two centuries masculine passions have been channelled into new directions: an aggressive fight aimed at destroying the enemy is being replaced by civilised competition. The chapter published here concentrates on the process in which horse race is transformed into rowing-competition in the mid-nineteenths century.

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