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"Leave Lesser Men to Their Golf Clubs Then ..."

其他書名	The Golf Boom, 1880-1900, and the Challenges to British Imperial Masculinities
出版	University of Vermont, 2010
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=VANPewAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Golfs suitability to accept the challenge posed by the physical emancipation of women in the figure of the"New Woman" was a key sign of insecurities and changes found within British society itself the changing role of women and the rise of the suburb and the emergence of a large professional, business and culturally dominant middle class. Golf courses, the actual activity of playing the game, and the subsequent "clubbability" it showcased, attached itself to an older sense of social hierarchical proprieties well suited to the needs of the British middle classes. Golf as a game, however, showcased more individualistic notions of the self, but still attached golfers to the society of peer groups through the homo-social aspects of The Club. Golf in the Empire, exhibited a similar, if smaller scale growth in popularity at this time. Golf had been played in an imperial setting for years and had exhibited the needs to exclude on the basis of gender, class and most importantly for the imperial setting, race. British elites were equally engaged with the game during The Golf Boom, but were enthralled with more "manly" options open to them in a colonial setting.