Making the Rugby World: Race, Gender, Commerce

Updating the editors' 1996 Making Men, Rugby and Masculine Identity , contributors interpret the recent professionalization, globalization, and the Rugby World Cup as the culmination of processes that have been simmering for a century. They look at issues roused by the game's expansion into the larger world, such as race, rugby in non-British societies, women's rugby, homophobia, nationalism, and the impact of commercialization. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)