French masculinities : history, culture and politics
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French masculinities : history, culture and politics
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Elite masculinities in eighteenth-century France / Anne C. Villa
- Men without women? Ideal masculinity and male sociability in the French Revolution, 1789-99 / Sean M. Quinlan
- Making Frenchmen into warriors : martial masculinity in Napoleonic France / Michael J. Hughes
- Neighbourhood boys and men : the changing spaces of masculine identity in France, 1848-71 / Bertrand Taithe
- La civilisation and its discontents : modernity, manhood and the body in the early Third Republic / Christopher E. Forth
- Enemies within : venereal disease and the defence of French masculinity between the wars / Judith Surkis
- Colonial man / Robert Aldrich
- In the name of the father : male masculinities in Vichy France / Miranda Pollard
- Revolt and recuperation : masculinities and the Roman Noir in immediate post-war France / Claire Gorrara
- High-heels or hiking boots? Masculinity, effeminacy and male homosexuals in modern France / Michael Sibalis
- Cinematic stardom, shifting masculinities / Martin O'Shaughnessy
- Virilité in post-war France : intellectual masculinity, Jewishness and sexual potency / Jean-Pierre Boulé
- Threatening virility in the French Banlieues, 1989-2005 / André Rauch
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volumes offers a comprehensive and critical overview of ideas of how virilite has been imagined in France from the Eighteenth century. Incorporating insights of cultural and social historians, this collection approaches masculinities in a complex and interdisciplinary manner that will appeal to a wide range of readers.
Table of Contents
- List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: French Manhood in the Modern World
- C.E.Forth & B.Taithe Elite Masculinities in Eighteenth-Century France
- A.C.Villa Men without Women? Ideal Masculinity and Male Sociability in the French Revolution, 1789-99
- S.Quinlan Making Frenchmen into Warriors: Martial Masculinity in Napoleonic France
- M.J.Hughes Neighbourhood Boys and Men: the Changing Spaces of Masculine Identity in France, 1848-1871
- B.Taithe La Civilisation and its Discontents: Modernity, Manhood and the Body in the Early Third Republic
- C.E.Forth Enemies Within: Venerial Disease and the Defence of French Masculinity between the Wars
- J.Surkis Colonial Man
- R.Aldrich In the Name of the Father: Fe/male Masculinites in Vichy France
- M.Pollard Revolt and Recuperation: Masculinities and the Roman Noir in Immediate Post-War France
- C.Gorrara High-Heels or Hiking Boots? Masculinity, Effeminacy and Male Homosexuals in Modern France
- M.Sibalis Cinematic Stardom, Shifting Masculinties
- M.O'Shaughnessy Virilite in Post-War France: Intellectual Masculinity, Jewishness and Sexual Potency
- J-P.Boule Threatening Virility in the French Banlieues, 1989-2005
- A.Rauch Afterword
- R.Nye Index
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