Club Life Research Articles

The Jewish Gymnastics in the Czech Lands until 1918

The Jewish Gymnastics in the Czech Lands until 1918 In the second half of the 19th century there was a significant change in the club's life and physical activities in the Habsburger Monarchy. The German gymnastics system (Turnbewegung) was the strongest one with regions, subregions and clubs in every smaller city. But towards the end of the 19th century the uprising of anti-Semitic attitude Jews started to flee or they were made to leave this organization. They built their own organization with similar ideology and structure. Nevertheless, its influence and importance was rather marginal. Although we could find areas where Jewish gymnastics had its steady position within the community. The Czech lands belonged among the leading territories within the Jewish Gymnastics Organization (Jüdische Turnbewegung).

Status and recognition of sportswomen in Indian society

In the early 1900s when club life was introduced in India, sporting activities also found a serious place in female lives due to the facilities provided. Women pioneers had started...

The Leg Club model: a survey of staff and members' perceptions of this model of care

To determine the Leg Club members' perceptions of the Leg Club as a model for delivery of service. An explorative qualitative approach was used. All members and staff at two Leg Clubs in the UK were invited to participate. They were asked to nominate five key words that described their views of the Leg Club model of care. The researcher and a research supervisor then counted them and decided on categories. Members' themes were verified by 10 randomly chosen Leg Club members and staff themes by five randomly chosen staff. All of the 85 Leg Club members and 15 staff approached agreed to take part. Categories identified for the Leg Club members were: sociability, enabling, knowledge and experience, interpersonal relationships, caring and quality. Categories identified for Leg Club staff were: camaraderie, education, empowerment, sociability and tiredness. These results indicate that the community Leg Club environment provides benefits in addition to those of guidelines, wound care expertise and evidence-based care. While the small sample size limits the generalisability of these exploratory data, the results identify the positive views of Leg Club members and highlights the need for further research. Similar data is not available for other health care delivery methods, so this also warrants further exploration.

Club Life: Third Place and Shared Leisure in Rural Canada

This paper presents a day in the life of the Walnut Lake Curling Club. The reflexive analytic story is crafted from ethnographic research undertaken in 18 curling clubs across rural Canada. Contrary to a growing tendency toward individualized and privatized leisure, curling clubs in rural Canada remain sites for shared leisure. Building on recent efforts to position leisure sites as third places, the paper enhances an understanding of curling clubs' construction, dynamism and fluidity. Ethnographic approaches are offered as presenting opportunities to comprehend how third places are constructed, particularly within the changing context of leisure in rural life.

초등예비교사의 스포츠 동아리 참가정도와 대학생활 적응과의 관계

초등예비교사의 스포츠 동아리 참가정도와 대학생활 적응과의 관계

MICHAEL A. LERNER. Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2007. Pp. 351. $28.95

This book is not only a finely grained study of New York City as the chief bastion of wet resistance to the Eighteenth Amendment; it is the best history of prohibition enforcement in an urban environment yet written. Michael A. Lerner has a discerning eye for the effective anecdote (he opens with the mayor of Berlin innocently asking on a 1929 visit to Gotham when the prohibition law—already in force for nearly a decade—would take effect) and a gift for compelling historical prose. These qualities have already drawn popular interest to the book. Historians will be impressed by the thorough research supporting the smooth, if sometimes glib, narrative. Grounding his analysis in municipal archival sources such as the district attorney scrapbooks and magistrates reports, manuscript investigations and social surveys from the Committee of Fourteen and the Social Science Research Council, memoirs, and newspaper sources ranging from Variety to the Amsterdam News, Lerner provides a street-level view of the policing, politics, and culture of prohibition in New York. He is particularly thorough in laying bare the tensions between the understaffed, corruption-prone, and sometimes brutal federal Prohibition Bureau and a city police force unenthusiastic about prohibition enforcement. In turn, the police, compelled by the Mullan-Gage state law to crack down on prohibition violators, were undercut by judges and city officials hostile to prohibition until city representatives in Albany forced the repeal of Mullan-Gage in 1923. Lerner also provides a richly-textured analysis of New York's speakeasy and nightclub culture. He reveals ethnic and working-class drinking and club life, the festive climate of high-end nightclubs such as Texas A. Guinan's 300 Club, and the interracial encounters of Harlem nightlife. Supplementing studies by Lewis A. Erenberg, George Chauncey, and Kathy Peiss with extensive primary research, Lerner examines the transformative possibilities for recreational, sexual, gendered, and racial change embedded in speakeasy culture, as well as the persistence of exploitation, especially notable in the white practice of “slumming” in Harlem clubs.

Catch and glee culture in eighteenth-century England

The rise of the catch and glee in Georgian England represents a rare example of indigenous forms establishing themselves within a wide musical and social context. This study examines a phenomenon that has to date been largely overlooked by historians. Taking the 17th-century background as a starting point, it moves on to a detailed account of the clubs formed to propagate the two genres, placing them within the ambiance of the thriving club life of London and the provinces. The success of the London Catch Club and its emulators in encouraging the creation of a large and popular repertoire that would come to assume nationalistic significance is reflected by the incursion of the catch and glee into mainstream concert life and the theatre. The volume concludes with a discussion of the glee in relation to the aesthetics of the period and a brief survey of its subsequent reputation among musicians and historians.

Cinema Context en onderzoek naar sociale netwerken binnen de filmgeschiedschrijving: een aanzet tot discussie

This article discusses the status and position of the Cinema Context database in outlining a future research agenda for the comparative study of cinema cultures. The authors argue that the specificity of for instance Dutch national cinema culture cannot be explained solely by using the data and analytic tools offered by Cinema Context. Contextual factors and phenomena that are not accounted for in the sphere of the database have contributed significantly to the shaping of the characteristics of (Dutch) cinema culture. In order to support this claim the article discusses three examples of such factors and phenomena: local club life in the province of Limburg; press discourse on the dominant position of Jews in the Dutch film business; and differences in the representation of the social world of women in early Dutch talking pictures. The Cinema Context database and research into such wider contexts surrounding the database are complementary perspectives for investigating the history of cinema cultures.

One Hundred and Fifty Years of the 'Bibliotheek Sociëteit de Witte': The History of the Library of a Gentlemen's Club

On 1 November 2005 the library of 'Nieuwe of Littéraire Sociëteit De Witte' commemorated its one-hundred-and-fiftieth birthday with a symposium about local private libraries. In contrast to the club as a whole, the specific history of its book collection has never been researched. The club archive, now kept at the Municipal Archives in The Hague, is an important source for researching and disclosing the past of what still is one of the city's most impressive libraries. Before the First World War, the books, periodicals and newspapers of the library played a very important role not only in club life, but also in supplying knowledge to those engaged in civic and commercial life at a fairly high level: the members, often involved in government, politics, industry or commerce, came to the library and reading room for the latest news in their field of interest, and this was reflected in the library's acquisitions policy. In the 1930s the growing speed at which new publications appeared, the development of the Municipal and Royal Library and the establishment of specialized collections within ministries and enterprises changed the role of the 'Witte Bibliotheek'. It developed into an institution for leisure, still buying publications in the original fields of interest but in a more haphazard fashion, and from that time onwards focusing more on Dutch and foreign literature. The collection today, comprising some 27,000 books, is being reorganized, the Art Deco interiors are being restored, and for the first time computer facilities for members will be introduced in the reading room. But the old card catalogue system will also be continued, as the De Witte Library wants to protect its most important feature: the atmosphere of a pre-war Gentlemen's Library.

'A melancholy odyssey among London public houses': radical club life and the unrespectable in mid-nineteenth-century London

This article re-opens the debate about metropolitan club life in the middle years of the nineteenth century. The traditional view of the clubs matches a historiography of British radicalism which privileges the eighteen-forties and eighties, and is neglectful of the middle years of the century. Addressing recent continuity arguments, this article modifies prevailing views of metropolitan political clubs by scrutiny of those elements that remained outside the Liberal consensus. In so doing it relates the history of radical club life in the capital to the popular politics of the mid nineteenth century, and to debates about Chartist survival. In addition, it re-examines the clubs in line with a new historiography of London which stresses the uniqueness of the capital, and the moral panics that emerged from concerns about the persistence of the radical underground.

Russian Club Life

While the 1990s in Russia witnessed a marked decrease in the officially sponsored clubs that organized Soviet citizens' leisure hours along ideologically approved collective lines, they also ushered in a host of new, diverse clubs closer to Western models. The broad range encompassed political, business, professional, and sports clubs, as well as health clubs, the night clubs that received bemused coverage by the Western press, and the clubs created primarily by and for the New Russians. Among the last, the exclusive English Club, which ruled as Moscow's premier club, combined stylish relaxation amidst lavish surroundings with a more covert agenda: the establishment of useful business and political contacts. With the formation of a stable oligarchy as its goal, the club reflected the decade's penchant for self-legitimation through a revival of elitist tsarist traditions.

The March to Monterrey: The Diary of Lt. Rankin Dilworth (review)

BOOK REVIEWS235 life was half-hearted, he was always at his happiest in the company of other men, especially with a drink or a tankard in his hand. So enamored of "club life" was Scott that hejoined virtually every social club in the New York City as well as in Plainfield, New Jersey, where he and his family moved in 1875. His almost pathological obsession with socializing would be humorous but for the fact that it led to the alcoholism that blighted the middle years of the artist's life and cost him his family and perhaps the opportunity fora more successful professional career. Scott salvaged an otherwise rudderless life when he took a temperance pledge and was later selected, along with fellow artists Walter Shirlaw, Peter Moran, Gilbert Gaul, and Henry R. Poor, to serve as a "special agent" for the 1 890 census of Native Americans. Scott, whose duties were to preserve in his artwork and in photographs the "fast disappearing phases of Indian life," traveled to the Indian Territory (later Oklahoma), then on to the pueblos of Laguna and Acoma in New Mexico, and finally to the Hopi communities of northeast Arizona . Titterton's biography gains in interest as it details the story of Scott's travels among the Indian tribes of the Southwest, for these experiences kindled in the artist a renewed enthusiasm for life and inspired a compassion for the misunderstood and largely mistreated peoples of the reservations and pueblos. Scott saw firsthand the corruption of Indian agents and the disregard for Indian traditions in the policies ofthe Bureau ofIndianAffairs and he spoke out frankly in his reports against such practices as compulsory boarding schools for Indian children, a program that broke up families. Scott argued that the Indians of the Southwest should be left largely alone to follow their ancient customs. A number of Scott's drawings and photographs illustrate the 683 pages of the Report on Indians TaxedandIndians Not Taxed; this may be his most significant achievement . Scott also made a trip to the Dakotas and a return trip to the Hopi pueblos before he closed, one imagines with some regret, the most challenging and interesting chapter of his life. Scott died alone, mostly forgotten, and in poverty, surrounded by his canvases and the many Indian artifacts he brought home from the Southwest, in 1901. Ben Bassham Kent State University The March to Monterrey: The Diary ofU. Rankin Dilworth. Edited by Lawrence R. Clayton and Joseph E. Chance. (Ei Paso: Texas Western Press, 1996. Pp. xxv, 1 19. $12.50, paperback.) The journal of Rankin Dilworth, an undistinguished regular army officer only two years out of West Point when he was mortally wounded at Monterrey (his only experience of combat), provides a simple yet subtly idiosyncratic memoir that both complements and enriches one's reading of other American war narratives. Dilworth's silence on politics and diplomacy, his thoughts on army 236CIVIL WAR HISTORY life, and his mixed reactions to Mexico and its inhabitants were representative enough ofhis fellow officers, but his briefjottings contain a revealing openness that suggests the innocence and uncertainty as well as the exuberance and selfconfidence of the American youth who embodied Manifest Destiny. Indeed, Dilworth's journey through northern Mexico reads like a military Wanderjahr, full of romantic daydreams, an artless fascination with women, and sentimental longings for home. Initially sounding more like tourists than the vanguard of empire, on several occasions Dilworth and his fellows seem to have drifted into a mirage of blissful isolation from the realities of war that anticipated South Pacific by nearly a century, and his musings reflect an idyllic undertone in the literature of Americans at war that has never been adequately explored. This dreamlike tone notwithstanding, the reader's reverie will be interrupted by the young lieutenant's forthright expression of his fears for the future, as on the Fourth of July when after two weeks without word from Matamoros he wrote that "we are as those without hope. I see that providence intends that we shall go no further into the country" (40). Indeed, it is not Dilworth's romanticism and sentimentality—common enough in the literature of the time...

Networking in the Nineteenth Century

In March 1868, journalist Jane Cunningham Croly was stymied when she attempted to buy a ticket to attend a Charles Dickens lecture sponsored by the all-male New York Press Club. Croly, angered by this churlish treatment, put into action idea that ultimately changed the lives of millions of American women -- she formed her own club.(1) This early women's club, Sorosis, attracted so many writers and professional women that the members initially debated calling the group the Order of the Pen. The women decided against limiting their membership to only writers and to take a more broad-based approach to club life.(2) The idea of a club for women writers, however, still appealed to Croly and, more than twenty-one years after being shunned by the all-male New York Press Club, she unveiled her plan for a press club for women. This article chronicles the founding of the Woman's Press Club of New York City.(3) It provides a first look at the club's handwritten minutes, which trace how the group evolved from a small core of prominent New York women journalists into a club that welcomed fledgling writers and encouraged their involvement in journalism. The women journalists who joined and promoted this club were part of the army of women who flocked to newspapers in the late Nineteenth Century. Most of these women are themselves lost to journalism history except as a statistic, yet, as the club archive demonstrates, they took the business of writing seriously and helped promote journalism as a career for women.(4) The club also provided camaraderie for women in a male-dominated profession and a forum to explore reforms or topics the women could later write about. The discussion that follows is based on the thesis that women used their social clubs as a network to communicate and maintain contact with other women. Anne Firor Scott in her book Natural Allies demonstrated that womanhood, i.e. the women's clubs, formed an effective communications network.(5) Scott, who investigated the activities of numerous women's clubs, found that the women used their clubs and their national association, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, to exchange ideas and information quickly and effectively. Although the prevailing ideal for middle-class women in the nineteenth century held that their proper place was in the home, many women found in their clubs opportunity to promote civic activities and social reform in their communities. Karen Blair, in The Clubwoman as Feminist, defined club women as Domestic Feminists who delighted in being Ladies yet learned in the safety of their clubs how to widen their sphere to include the public domain.(6) Women journalists, whose work by definition put them into the public sphere, also sought the safe haven of club life. They were among the very first club members, joining the New York-based Sorosis and the Boston-based New England Woman's Club. These general clubs provided the women with friendships and opportunity to involve themselves in organized reforms and activities. But unwelcome in the male press clubs, women journalists also craved organization that could foster their professional careers.(7) Indeed, the exclusion of women from the all-male press clubs that thrived in cities in the late nineteenth century prompted the move by women to form their own groups. The Woman's Press Club of New York City, which was founded in 1889 and flourished in the last decade of that century, was one such group. Other clubs also were established to provide a vital communication network that helped women survive and make inroads in the male-dominated business of journalism. Jane Cunningham Croly, who often used the penname Jenny June, was, by 1889, a nationally known journalist who wrote for newspapers and magazines.(8) As one of the earliest women to brave the male bastion of the newsroom, Croly believed that women journalists could avoid feeling isolated by organizing themselves in clubs. …

Clubs Between Life-World and System A Theoretical Approach to the Meaning of Watersport Clubs

Abstract Sociological theory on clubs as organized leisure groups is poor or fragmentary. There might be an ideological explanation for this poverty. A problem is also the diversity of the associational phenomenon. This paper is a plea for renewed theoretical interest in club life. Observations concerning watersport clubs are related to a theoretical model for production and consumption in leisure and a theory on general social development. Combinations of production and consumption within club life explain the logic of participation and functioning of the club. The theory of Habermas on social development serves as a reference for interpretation of changing relations between clubs and the state, and between clubs and the formal economy.

German Club Life as a Local Cultural System

In the shadow of the Historikerstreit over the meaning of the Nazi era, West German historians are conducting a less highly publicized but similarly politicized debate about the role of ethnography in social history. The following analysis of local club life, based on ethnographic and archival research in Boppard on the Rhine, is offered as a contribution to and comment on this debate from the viewpoint of interpretive cultural anthropology. I contend that “local knowledge”—to employ the phrase by Clifford Geertz—is indispensable to broader historical syntheses, though for different reasons than have been suggested by either critics or advocates of cultural anthropology among West German historians.

History from Below Comes to Germany: The New History Movement in the Federal Republic of Germany

Previous articleNext article No AccessReview ArticlesHistory from Below Comes to Germany: The New History Movement in the Federal Republic of GermanyRoger FletcherRoger Fletcher Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Modern History Volume 60, Number 3Sep., 1988 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/600406 Views: 9Total views on this site Citations: 3Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1988 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:James H. Jackson Alltagsgeschichte , Social Science History, and the Study of Migration in Nineteenth-Century Germany, Central European History 23, no.2-32-3 (Dec 2008): 242–263.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008938900021373Beatrice Heuser Museums, Identity and Warring Historians – Observations on History in Germany, The Historical Journal 33, no.22 (Feb 2009): 417–440.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X00013406John R. Eidson German Club Life as a Local Cultural System, Comparative Studies in Society and History 32, no.22 (Jun 2009): 357–382.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417500016522

The Key to Club Life

The Key to Club Life

Club Life in 159 A. D. Revealed by Expedition

Club Life in 159 A. D. Revealed by Expedition

Unsupervised Club Life Among Girls Attending Secondary Schools

Unsupervised Club Life Among Girls Attending Secondary Schools

Clubs and club life in London, with anecdotes of its famous coffee-houses, hostelries, and taverns, from the seventeenth century to the present time

Clubs and club life in London, with anecdotes of its famous coffee-houses, hostelries, and taverns, from the seventeenth century to the present time