Introduction - rubgby, manhood and identity, Timothy J. L. Chandler, John Nauright; the structuring of manliness and the development of rugby football at the public schools and Oxbridge, 1830-1880, Timothy J. L. Chandler; rugby, class, amateurism and manliness - the case of rugby in northern England, 1871-1895, James W. Martens; sport and the masculine hegemony of the modern nation - Welsh rugby, culture and society, 1890-1914, David Andrews; the hard man - rugby and the formation of male identity in New Zealand, Jock Phillips; forging a ruling race, rugby and while masculinity in colonial Natal, c. 1860-1910; Robert Morrell; colonial manhood and imperial race virility - British responses to post-Boer War colonial rugby tours, John Nauright; games field and battlefield - a romantic alliance in verse and the creation of militaristic masculinity, J. A.

Mangan; football, class and war - the rugby codes in New South Wales, 1907-1918, Murray Phillips; playing for power? rugby, Afrikaner nationalism and masculinity in South Africa, c. 1900-c. 1970, Albert Grundlingh; "Hitting them Where it Hurts" - Springbok-All Black rugby, masculine national identity and counter-hegemonic struggle, 1959-1992, John Nauright and David Black; sustaining masculine hegemony - rugby and the nostalgia of masculinity, John Nauright.