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Title: Globalizing the beautiful body: Eugen sandow; bodybuilding, and the Ideal of muscular manliness at the turn of the twentieth century
Authors: Conrad, Sebastian
Keywords: Beauty
Bodybuilding
Global intellectual history
Globalization
Manliness
Sandow
Issue Date: 2021
Series/Report no.: Journay of World History;Vol.32, No.01 .- P.95-125
Abstract: In the late nineteenth century, bodybuilding was seen as a new way of shaping a manly, muscular, and beautiful body. Eugen Sandow, sometimes hailed as the “father of modem bodybuilding,” emerged as a global icon. Historians have usually understood his travels around the world as the origin of bodybuilding’s global career. This article argues, by contrast, that the cross- border trajectory of the ideal and practice of the muscular male body was not the simple result of the diffusion of Western norms, but rather the effect of a global conjuncture. At the turn of the twentieth century, the uneven process of global integration generated debates at the interplay of masculinity, strength, beauty, health, and nationalism and helped establish a new body regime that was empbyed as a response to the challenges of the modem world in many places.
URI: https://dspace.ctu.edu.vn/jspui/handle/123456789/70863
ISSN: 1045-6007
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