Superman Supreme

Prologue: global fascism and the male body - ambitions, similarities and dissimilarities, J.A. Mangan; model of masculinity - Mussolini, the new Italian of the fascist era, Gigliola Gori; muscular Anschluss - German bodies and Austrian imitators, Wolfgang Weber, Paula Black; fascist political athletes and the body politic - Bulgaria reborn, Vassil Girginov, Peter Bankov; the iconic symbolism of Neils Bukh - Aryan body culture, Danish gymnastics and Nordic tradition, Hans Bonde; fascists and Christians! in the Spanish martial tradition of the soldier-monk, Teresa Gonzalez Aja; return to manhood - the cult of masculinity and the British Union of Fascists, Tony Collins; bodies from Brazil - fascist aesthetics in a South American setting, Lamartine P. da Costa, Plinio Labriola; militarism, sacrifice and emperor worship - the expendable male body in Japanese martial culture, J.A. Mangan, Takeshi Komagome; blueshirts, nationalists and nationalism - fascism in 1930s China, Fan Hong.