The Sanctity of Sunday Football: Why Men Love Sports
Open Access
- 1 August 2003
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Contexts
- Vol. 2 (4), 13-21
- https://doi.org/10.1525/ctx.2003.2.4.13
Abstract
The American male's obsession with sports seems to suggest that the love affair is a natural expression of masculinity. But sociologists have found that, conversely, sports teach men how to be manly, and studying sports reveals much about masculinity in contemporary America.Keywords
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