Chow, Broderick D.V. (2019) Sculpting Masculinities in 19th- and 20th-Century Physical Culture: The Practiced Life of Stanley Rothwell. TDR, 2 (242). pp. 34-56. ISSN 1531-4715

Abstract

The performance of physical transformation poses a methodological challenge for historians of 19th- and 20th-century physical culture: it is primarily the still image that evidences a dynamic, embodied practice. The archive of Stanley Rothwell (1904–1986) — British miner, artist’s model, bodybuilder, boxer, wrestler, writer, and physical educator — reveals the sculpted masculine “ideal” as a performance of becoming, in which the image is constantly trained, constructed, and rebuilt through repetition, allowing for the possibility of difference.

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Official URL:	https://direct.mit.edu/dram/article/63/2%20(242)/3...
Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	European Theatre, Dance and Performance
Depositing User:	Helen Davies
Date Deposited:	01 Apr 2021 07:03
Last Modified:	09 Apr 2021 06:31
URI:	https://crco.cssd.ac.uk/id/eprint/1642